Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/01
By: Chen Cheng-wei and William Yen
Taipei, May 1 (CNA) Almost 70 percent of employees expressed satisfaction with their
overall work environment in 2017, a 0.2 percentage point increase on the previous year, according to a report released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) Tuesday.
The statistics came from the Ministry of Labor’s survey on laborers’ life and employment which showed that 69.2 percent of workers were satisfied with their overall work environment last year.
The average monthly salary of employees in industrial and service sectors was NT$49,989 (US$1,682), an increase of 2.5 percent from the previous year.
However, during the same period, the consumer price index rose 0.62 percent, so the actual gross salary was NT$47,271, an increase of 1.8 percent year-on-year.
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