Some newspapers have written feature stories about the average yearly income of taxi drivers being much lower than that of all workers in Japan, which represents a part of the gap-widening social issue.
乗務員の平均年収は全労働者の平均年収を大きく下回っており、格差社会問題の一端が表れているとの新聞特集記事が掲載されたこともある。