Taiwanese entry-level workers last year earned an average monthly salary of NT$37,000, a 6.4 percent increase year-on-year, Ministry of Labor data showed.
Last year, 147,000 people entered the workforce, down 9,000 from the previous year, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The ministry said that 45.7 percent of all entry-level workers were male, 71.7 percent were college-educated, 19.5 percent had graduate-level degrees, 5.9 percent had high school or high-school equivalent education and 2.7 percent had vocational-school education.
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New workers with graduate degrees on average earned a salary of NT$52,000 a month, new college-educated workers earned NT$34,000 a month and new high-school educated workers earned NT$29,000 a month, it said.
The minimum wage last year was NT$27,470, it added.
Gender inequality in income remained largely the same, as women entering the workforce on average earned NT$36,000 a month, or 91.3 percent of their male counterparts’ pay, the ministry said.
That figure marked an 8.7 percent gender pay gap, which increased to 10.4 percent in the manufacturing sector, it said.
Women fared slightly better in 2023, when the average income of new female workers was 91 percent of their male counterparts, it added.
New workers with graduate degrees last year earned an average of NT$59,000 a month in the media and information technology sectors, and NT$58,000 in the manufacturing sector, the ministry said.
The same year, new workers with college degrees earned NT$40,000 a month in the medical care and services industries, and NT$38,000 in the financial and insurance industries, it said.
The ministry said graduate-degree holders who entered the hospitality sector increased 7.5 percentage points, while college graduates who entered the construction sector increased 5.6 percentage points, it added.
The data was derived from pension payments for private and public-sector workers, counting only full-time work, the ministry said.
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