Minister of Labor Hsu Ming-chun (許銘春) admitted in the country’s legislature on Monday that this number does not reflect the reality of the society even though it was statistically correct
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/07
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Taiwan Premier William Lai (賴清德) recently said that the
(By Central News Agency)
average total salary of laborers in Taiwan last year was NT$49,989 (about US$1,700), but Minister of Labor Hsu Ming-chun (許銘春) admitted in the country’s legislature on Monday that this number does not reflect the reality of the society even though it was statistically correct.
Focusing on the low salary issue during a hearing in the legislature, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an ( 蔣萬安) asked the minister whether the average salary of NT$49,989 can reflect the reality of the society.
In response, Hsu said the average number doesn’t reflect the reality of the society and that a better representation of the society’s salary structure would be salary figures from each and every profession in the society. She added that NT$49,989 is a correct statistical figure, but the reality is that not too many people in the society earn that much.
According to Taiwan’s Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, on average the salary for an industrial or service worker in Taiwan was NT$39,953 in 2017, but if all bonuses and overtime pays were included, the average total salary was NT$49,989. [FULL STORY]
