The number of university students who plan to seek part-time work during the summer semester has reached an all-time high, a poll released by online job bank yes123 showed yesterday.
The poll showed that 91.2 percent of college students said they have plans to get a part-time job during the upcoming semester, up from 90.1 percent for the same period last year.
About 60 percent of respondents who said they would seek work were open to having two part-time jobs, the poll showed.
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Respondents planned to spend at most 64.2 hours working per month, or two hours per day, while about 10 percent planned to work 100 hours or more per month, yes123 said.
Respondents hoped to make NT$23,596 per month on average, with 5.7 percent hoping to make more than NT$50,000, it said.
The poll found that 97.6 percent of college students have already worked while studying, with their average monthly income being NT$20,929.
However, 10.9 percent said they made less than NT$10,000 monthly, the job bank said.
More than 72.3 percent were unhappy with their pay, with only 27.7 percent satisfied, it said.
Despite the high rates of working part-time, 70 percent of respondents said the money they made “was still insufficient,” with 47.3 percent saying they had to rely on their families, and 23.6 percent saying they had to borrow from friends, classmates or even teachers, it said.
Yes123 said that 33.6 percent reported that employers had not paid their labor insurance, while 44.3 percent had been paid less than the minimum wage.
Yes123 spokesman Yang Tsung-pin (楊宗斌) said that students who do part-time work, including tutoring, should look out for traps such as unreasonable wage deductions or being asked to pay out-of-pocket for company goods.
Students must speak up if they are not paid at least minimum wage or if employers do not pay their labor insurance, Yang said, adding that the authorities should be contacted if employers fail to respond to their requests.
The poll was conducted online from Aug. 10 to 23, targeting college students. It garnered 1,218 valid responses and had a margin of error of 2.81 percentage points.
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