MediaTek Inc (聯發科), the largest IC designer in Taiwan, last year paid its nonmanagement employees the highest average yearly salaries of all the companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, was seventh, the exchange said on Monday.
MediaTek, which specializes in smartphone IC design, paid an average salary of NT$4.867 million (US$156,414) to its nonmanagement employees last year, TWSE data showed.
Despite retaining the No. 1 title for pay, average salaries at the firm dropped from about NT$5.15 million recorded in 2021, the data showed.
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TSMC, the most profitable company in Taiwan, ranked seventh, paying an average of NT$3.167 million to nonmanagement employees, a 30 percent rise from an average of NT$2.425 million paid to workers in 2021, which had put it in 16th place.
Eight of the top 10 companies on the pay list are in the semiconductor industry, while two are in shipping.
Evergreen Marine Corp (長榮海運, No. 3, NT$4.575 million) and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp (陽明海運, No. 9, NT$2.957 million), featured high in the rankings amid fast-growing freight rates and port congestion.
Raydium Semiconductor Corp (瑞鼎科技), a display driver IC designer, ranked second after paying an average of NT$4.866 million to its nonmanagement employees last year, while Novatek Microelectronics Corp (聯詠科技), another display driver IC designer, was fourth with an average pay of NT$3.959 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were communications network IC designer Realtek Semiconductor Corp (瑞昱半導體, No. 5, NT$3.839 million), display driver IC designers Sitronix Technology Corp (矽創電子, No. 6, NT$3.641 million) and Fitipower Integrated Technology Inc (天鈺科技, No. 8, NT$2.958 million) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor image sensor designer Silicon Optronics Inc (晶相光電, No. 10, NT$2.777 million), TWSE data showed.
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