The average monthly wage for jobs where foreign language skills are important for employment is 2.68 million won, and that for jobs where foreign language skills are not important for employment is 2.084 million won or a difference of about 600,000 won.
The wage gap between jobs where foreign language skills are important for employment and jobs where they do not tend to widen as the rankings of colleges graduated by workers decline. As a result, the wage gap is 1.13 times for top 10 colleges, 1.17 times for those ranked 11-20,1.20 times for those ranked 21-30,1.23 times for those ranked 31-40, and 1.24 times for those ranked 41 or below.
Among full-time, regular workers who graduated from four-year universities, 62.7%said personality was an important factor for getting their current job, followed by academic major (55.8), education level (52.8%), foreign language skills (35.1%), and school attended (33.9%).
At companies that put importance on foreign language skills, people with high TOEIC scores are hired and the level of utilization of their foreign language skills is high. Hence, it seems that foreign language skills are used to some extent as a reasonable recruitment factor in such companies.