Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/04/22
By: Chen Cheng-wei and Frances Huang
Taipei, April 22 (CNA) The average wage for the first two months of this year fell
According to the DGBAS, the average wage stood at NT$67,425 (US$2,087), down 2.69 percent from a year earlier after employees on average received year-end bonuses equal to 1.54 months of their salary, down from an average of 1.69 months of their salary seen a year earlier.
The DGBAS said that due to slower business, employers here gave about NT$4,950 less in year-end bonuses this year than a year earlier. The latest year-end bonuses were the lowest in three years in terms of the number of months paid, the government agency said. In 2014 and 2013, year-end bonuses doled out by employers here were equal to 1.55 months of wages and 1.44 months, respectively, the DGBAS data showed. [FULL STORY]