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Cost of Living in Taipei
Summary about cost of living in Taipei:
- Four-person family monthly costs: 2,825.86$ (86,585.93NT$) without rent (using our estimator).
- A single person monthly costs: 769.41$ (23,575.19NT$) without rent.
- Cost of living rank 260th out of 531 cities in the world.
- Taipei has a cost of living index of 63.22.
| Restaurants | [ Edit ] | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant | 150.00 NT$ | |
| Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course | 800.00 NT$ | |
| McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) | 127.00 NT$ | |
| Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) | 50.00 NT$ | |
| Imported Beer (11.2 oz small bottle) | 80.00 NT$ | |
| Cappuccino (regular) | 83.52 NT$ | |
| Coke/Pepsi (11.2 oz small bottle) | 27.85 NT$ | |
| Water (11.2 oz small bottle) | 20.69 NT$ | |
| Markets | [ Edit ] | |
| Milk (regular), (1 gallon) | 339.85 NT$ | |
| Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) | 47.03 NT$ | |
| Rice (white), (1 lb) | 50.84 NT$ | |
| Eggs (regular) (12) | 66.25 NT$ | |
| Local Cheese (1 lb) | 263.54 NT$ | |
| Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), (1 lb) | 100.30 NT$ | |
| Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) | 242.35 NT$ | |
| Apples (1 lb) | 67.59 NT$ | |
| Banana (1 lb) | 34.51 NT$ | |
| Oranges (1 lb) | 30.46 NT$ | |
| Tomato (1 lb) | 49.56 NT$ | |
| Potato (1 lb) | 40.26 NT$ | |
| Onion (1 lb) | 29.74 NT$ | |
| Lettuce (1 head) | 40.00 NT$ | |
| Water (1.5 liter bottle) | 38.61 NT$ | |
| Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) | 475.00 NT$ | |
| Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) | 43.13 NT$ | |
| Imported Beer (11.2 oz small bottle) | 59.93 NT$ | |
| Cigarettes 20 Pack (Marlboro) | 100.00 NT$ | |
| Transportation | [ Edit ] | |
| One-way Ticket (Local Transport) | 20.00 NT$ | |
| Monthly Pass (Regular Price) | 1,280.00 NT$ | |
| Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) | 70.00 NT$ | |
| Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) | 40.23 NT$ | |
| Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) | 252.50 NT$ | |
| Gasoline (1 gallon) | 110.74 NT$ | |
| Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) | 924,000.00 NT$ | |
| Toyota Corolla 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) | 708,315.79 NT$ | |
| Utilities (Monthly) | [ Edit ] | |
| Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment | 2,423.61 NT$ | |
| 1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) | 5.59 NT$ | |
| Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) | 829.18 NT$ | |
| Sports And Leisure | [ Edit ] | |
| Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult | 1,478.55 NT$ | |
| Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) | 410.00 NT$ | |
| Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat | 300.00 NT$ | |
| Childcare | [ Edit ] | |
| Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child | 16,800.00 NT$ | |
| International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child | 490,000.00 NT$ | |
| Clothing And Shoes | [ Edit ] | |
| 1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) | 2,248.11 NT$ | |
| 1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) | 1,172.77 NT$ | |
| 1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) | 2,620.00 NT$ | |
| 1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes | 3,884.44 NT$ | |
| Rent Per Month | [ Edit ] | |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre | 25,024.69 NT$ | |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre | 19,332.88 NT$ | |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre | 58,180.12 NT$ | |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre | 39,462.95 NT$ | |
| Buy Apartment Price | [ Edit ] | |
| Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre | 28,115.60 NT$ | |
| Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre | 16,027.68 NT$ | |
| Salaries And Financing | [ Edit ] | |
| Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) | 47,619.02 NT$ | |
| Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate | 1.93 |
Prices in Taipei
These data are based on 2556 entries in the past 18 months from 373 different contributors.
Last update: September 2018
Last update: September 2018
100 Comments so far
Soaring house prices only benefits people like me who are selling at this time, I agree its horrible if you're looking to buy in a 2018 market that is overpriced like Taipei.
You talk as if soaring house prices are a good thing. Laughable.
Good luck Taiwan Real Estate Bubble investors...Losing so much money sucks.
Meanwhile I'm making a killing in the US, Singapore on my properties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBTUc2xvxeg
And give me a fucking break. In which country isn't the average skewed to the ultra rich? I feel like none of you idiots really know what the word "average" means.
"About 31 percent of all workers in Taiwan earned less than NT$30,000 per month this year, falling for the eighth consecutive year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS). The data also showed that 18.94 percent of employees earned more than NT$50,000 a month this year,"
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/12/03/2003683359
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w
Now this is a sane investment as rental can fetch quite a lot. Salary is high to justify the cost and there are many renters in this part of town.
Japans real estate bubble has burst a while back due to aging/ dwindling population something Taiwan is about to go through.
Asia Tigers Real Estate Bubble Bursting/Cooling off
World’s Worst Property Market Confronts Taiwan’s New President 2016- Falling ever since 2016
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/world-s-worst-property-market-confronts-taiwan-s-new-president
Bejing, Shanghai, Shenzhen Prices falling -2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hot-housing-market-begins-to-cool-1516098600
Bangkok Property falling 2018
https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Thailand/Price-History
Seoul Property Cooling down
https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/South-Korea/Price-History
Hong Kong’s home prices may fall by half in next 10 years, Deutsche Bank says
http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/2097546/hong-kongs-home-prices-may-fall-half-next-10-years-deutsche
Lots of markets are in a bubble now, even in Uzebekistans capital Azgabat a 1000sq ft condo goes for 500k USD! There is no reason for this as I've studied the area/rent etc. In Malaysias Sabah reigion in the Jungle there are poorly built condos selling for 500k USD! All are incredible bubbles of speculation. Jin I can clearly tell you're a speculation buyer....its called gambling, you can make a lot if the timing is right but you can lose a lot of the timing is bad because the rental value is incredibly low compared to purchase price. Singapore and HK still demand a decent rental return on price.
When trying to profit off real estate you have to check your ego and pride for your country at the door. Its all business and Taipei and much of Taiwan is a bad investment in 2018 to buy in.
I can clearly tell don't understand the Hongkong, Bangkok or Singapore markets. Singapore and Hongkong have increasing populations and extremely limited land. Bangkok is over valued like Taipei which is why their real estate is dropping fast recently and I see Taipei eventually going the way of Bangkok.
As for Singapore and HK They are also financial centers of the world, a lot of money and trading goes through here. There is also a sizable population with a very high income that can sustain it.. HK is mainly due to Wealthy main land buyers the past 20 yrs. Taipei is not it does not have a population that is open to world trade markets having been more open to Mainland trade alone. Yes Taipei is also a small city but that doesn't account for why New Taipei City is incredibly expensive.
Taipei real estate prices are dropping, I will pick them up cheaper when people like you sell them at a loss. Taiwan needs to do more to boost its local economy and raise wages across the board. Taiwans Rent vs Property price is the highest disparity on the world. Seoul is also in a Bubble currently as well as Beijing. The property is only worth what someone will pay for it.
Beijing property is almost at least twice as expensive as Taipei property. Don't you think the property price in Beijing isn't acceptable either, you idiot. It is very idiotic of you in the first place to compare Asian cities with cities from America or Euro.
Unless being suppressed of the property price by the current Taiwan government, Taipei property price should have already caught up with similar cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, etc. So it is just a matter of time, Taipei property will climb up to where it belongs where its colleagues are now. (The property price of future Taipei can be predicted accurately now just by looking at its colleagues)
Crooked Semi-foreigner ! Fighting for Taiwan doom will never work with your idiotic slander !
I can tell you my Properties in certain parts of the US have an ROI of about 10-12% on rent.
I can buy a 15 million NTD House and rent it out for 80,000 NTD a month in markets outside of Taiwans crazy Bubble.
A real Estate Investor makes money on both Cash Flow from high (ROI) on Rent and from property value increases.
Amatuer real estate gamblers try to take lucky gambles once in a while on speculation prices..
Then hilariously states Taipei has higher wages than Beijing but is poor Taipei.
Taipei ain't poor it's a good city not some polluted overpriced hellhole like a lot of the mainland.
Me I'm enjoying the cheap rent :).
Thats called a poor odds gamble,.. Without rising rent due to high wages to earn along with equity its a risky market. 2006-10 would have been a good investment in Taipei. Taipeis wages are the lowest of the Asian Tigers btw, there are multiple reasons why HK and Singapore markets are being priced up none of those factors are happening here in Taiwan.
Anonymous 2 down is making some idiotic political statements why barely understanding Real Estate prices, I think he/she must have an invested interest in Taipei.
Try to apply some foreign exchange student programs in Taipei.
You might get some opportunities after graduated.
I really like here.
The price and rent of Taipei/New Taipei is already the lowest (at the bottom level, just waiting the right time to ascend to a big surprise) among its colleagues, the four asian tigers, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong.
So it is just a matter of time that both price and rent shall be catching up to its colleagues within 2 or 3 years the most.
It is absurd to see even the price and rent of lower-waged Beijing property is higher than Taipei/New Taipei. No wonder even Beijing starts looking down on Taipei/New Taipei with contempt now, thanks to this imprudent government suppression (actually self-infliction upon itself) upon its potential Taipei/New Taipei property market unlike Beijing where the property price has been raised at least
one or two times during the last 3 years and then now the outcome this unsophisticated government reaps is challenge after challenge on top of poor Taipei contempt from Beijing.
The housing is too expensive already for many people.
It's very hard to get ahead without family money and assets in Taiwan, salary rares are simply too low.
I am also a high earning long term resident of Taiwan know many business people.
Business people abd company owners don't share enough profits with their workers that is the truth .
There are also a lot of empty high end apartments.
At least rent is fairly cheap in Taiwan. I currently pay just 10% of my earnings for rent.
But my monthly wage is just $600 ( $18K TWD )
My cousin work as Russian/ Mandarin translator in Kaohsiung, she makes 90k TWD there.
How can I move to Taiwan ?
I rent an apartment for 46k and much of my area is empty and new.
People you should WANT TO IMPROVE TAIWAN....stop arguing against helping the poor middle class here. Real estate alone isn't going to drive an economy! Yes there are Ultra Rich in Taiwan and its sad to see the gap widening between them and the middle class.
Anyways I'm doing fine financially but as an ABC I want to see locals here doing well too and I see the greed of these big bosses ruining it for Taiwan.
Regardless of all these crazy bonuses you're talking about...they are a thing of Taiwan's Past not present. Taiwan used to give crazy bonuses in Stocks etc for Tech companies like Hong Hai, TSMC, Renbao, HTC etc. 20-30 years ago that was common. Now a days and in 2008-2012 you were lucky to get 1 month, some very few people got 3-4 I have a few friends in middle and upper management in these companies so I know and also friends in HR.
The very fact is the Finance Ministry last week just announce that the Average Wage in Taiwan Including ALL BONUSES + Benefits and Salary is only 49,894 NTD. Taipei's is roughly 51,000 NTD Gross when including bonuses etc. They said the median Salary is closer to 34,000 NTD for Taipei.. aruge all you want against the last Facts and Statistics.
Lucia Simpson- Whose starving to death in US and Canada? Are you friggin kidding me lol thats idiotic
Taiwans real estate isn't going to Skyrocket unless you're a Realtor and live in your own dillusional world outside of statistical reality. I know many Realtors or people's whose investments and livelihoods want it to Skyrocket but unless Wages increase its not going to happen.
Beijing's 2nd and 3rd Ring Road are more expensive than Taipei. China has now the manufacturing to back it up. Let me ask you this...whose going to be buying these houses if youre making 30-60K NTD a month? Even if you make 100k NTD a month thats PEANUTS!!! You shouldn't be buying a house worth 15 million NTD to financials dont add up unless your financial future is based solely off a single GAMBLE that property prices will rise and you Wont be under water on your mortage LOL.
Everyone one of my friends in LA in their 30s now owns a house worth 500k usd to 1 million Without help from Parents. No one I know in their 30s in Taiwan will ever dream of owning a house outside of their rich parents helping or an 80% mortgage.. When Google bought out HTC engineers they automatically gave a 30-40% raise to the new hires forcing the greedy Taiwan companies to follow suit to keep Talent. HTC now says it will give raises to employees to try to catch up to Google.
You guys should just work harder and stop being like cry baby.
If you don't have a particular skill or certificate, you're income is the same shit even you're in US, Canada or other countries.
At least Taiwan government did great job not letting their people starve to death.
We have so many young homeless people in Canada here, Taiwan seeks a lot better than my country.
Renting out is the quickest in Taipei/New Taipei comparing to UK, in experience, a tenant contacted one of my friend in less than 3 hours after Tipei property posting and the tenant accepted the deal, all was done within 4 hours which seems never happened with any property belong to my friends and family members in UK. So it is not true mentioning vacancy rate in Taipei is as high as 20% but would rather say there is almost no vacancy rate for property in Taipei/New Taipei, almost all properties in Taipei/New Taipei are fully occupied and the demands are also quite high too comparing to UK.
The property price in Beijing is even much more expensive than Taipei/New Taipei though the salary in Beijing is low as merely HALF OF THE SALARY in Taipei/New Taipei.
However, Bonus payment amount including stock shares in Taiwan is the highest in Asia and the bonus amount is up to 20 times of the annual salary ( proof? higher standard of living in Taiwan) which is rarely seen in Singapore and Hong Kong.
The property price in Beijing has almost doubled during just within the last 3 year though the property price in Taipei/New Taipei hasn't moved a bit upward during the same last 3 years due to the property suppression from the current unreasonable Taiwan government.
However, there is no whatsoever downward pressure present anymore in term of property price due the the pressure from the current government because the current property price in Taipei /New Taipei is already at the bottom line so nothing to lose from the Taipei/New Taipei property purchase but the only remaining is to reap gain in the coming few years, that's all.
However, as soon as the current unreasonable Taiwan government is gone probably after 1 or 2 years, property price in Taipei/New Taiwan is ASSURED to skyrocket higher than that was experienced in Beijing during the last 3 years. With profit earning from businesses, have never lost interest in hunting for deals in Taipei/New Taipei properties until now so already secured many good properties under umbrella because well aware of in the next 1 or 2 years, the profit returns from Taipei/New Taipei properties would be indeed much more greater than what Beijing property profit during the last 3 years.
Singapore is due to much higher wages than Taiwan. Taiwans wages are by far the lowest of the 4 Tigers and declining even more. Unless Taiwan does something including the businesses soon Malaysia will catch up in coming years.
In other news Stocks have been doing well as an investment in Taiwan vs Housing due to unaffordability of houses.
Taiwans wages are so low compared to Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong. Lets not begin comparing to the West or Japan. Taiwan pays peanuts slave wages to its work force sadly. There is already a 20% vacancy rate of houses in Taipei all empty. The current Millenial generation will not be buying more houses as there is a huge population decline so there will be a huge abundance of available property and not enough people living in them. Its not a problem 20 years from now, it will be very obvious in 10 years before anyones Mortgage who buys now runs out. Taipei is a very bad investment to see a return on money in 2018-2030. Taipei was a VERY GOOD investment in 1990s-2004.
Taipei Investment for Real Estate
1990s-2004- Excellent
2004-2008 - Ok
2009-2012- Bad
2013-2018- Extremely Poor Investment- Kiss you money goodbye.
2019-2028. Huge Bubble Crash potential.
Whereas, wise government such as Japan, Korea never waste government fund unlike the foolish Taiwan government.
Taiwan stock price has been lifted as much as 30% during last year, but while happening correction of stock market price across the globe. The foolish Taiwan government foolishly wants to stop the correction of Taiwan stock market price unlike everywhere else where there is no interference from any government to stop the stock market price correction.
Let's see if Taiwan government has enough fund to sustain the unsustainable expensive Taiwan stock market price. No more fund..., then see which one collapse first either the unsustainable Taiwan stock market or Taiwan government
So Taipei/New Taipei is a tremendous opportunity available now to invest in property which would sooner or later return with tremendous profit just like what happened in Hong Kong and Singapore in recent few years. Grab while opportunity available or it would be too late
Taipei is one of the four asian tigers or dragons so should be compared among the four asian tigers nation which are Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea and not with unrelated L.A.
Taipei is the cheapest city in term of property price among the four Asian Tigers nation and the problem is due to the mismanagement of the current Tsai government.
Sooner or later the property price in Taipei would catch up its
News reports today say only 10% of the people in Taiwan earn over NT$61,000 per month.
Here https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3424171 1 it is saying the average salary is around 51k (Before Tax), and here it says https://international.thenewslens.com/article/91779 the median salary is somewhere around 35k, hence it seems to support that only 10% make over 61.
"I suspect today's buying largely came from government-led funds, which aimed to boost local share prices ahead of May 20, Alex Huang said, referring to the two-year anniversary of President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) inauguration.
Taiwan shares end higher, led by TSMC
This is cost of living data, not crying wall.
Stop crying shit and be a man.
So comparing to the property market of Hong Kong and Singapore, Taipei and new Taipei city are extremely dirt cheap so what the government has done so far is really unfair and harmful to Taiwanese.
Even the good-for-nothing developing nation like Thailand where the property price of Bangkok is much more expensive than Taipei and new Taipei city. What a shame !
US$2.2m in Bangkok buys marble baths, butlers and a Bentley
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/real-estate/us22m-in-bangkok-buys-marble-baths-butlers-and-a-bentley-0
Taiwan government have the responsibility to make its people richer comparing to its level playing developed countries such Hong Kong, Singapore, etc but making poorer and poorer to its people, Taiwanese by lowering the price of property market of Taipei and new Taipei city by its government itself is unimaginable and very sorrowful.
Raising the property price of Taiwanese capital, Taipei and new Taipei city is essential for the status of Taiwan to maintain as an already developed nation among all either developed or developing nations and consequently Taiwan would no longer be LOOKED DOWN by China as a poor, dirt cheap Taiwan.
China is still a developing country but its capital, Beijing where the price of property market is much much more expensive than Taipei and new Taipei city, the capital of Taiwan, a developed country.
So Taiwan government urgently have to really work hard to close the gap of the price of property market among its level playing developed countries such Hong Kong, Singapore.
However, the stock trading center start ripping off the online stock trader by collecting service fee two-time for both stock buying and stock selling so the service fee is costing the online stock trader twice 0.2848% (=0.1424% + 0.1424%) now compared to before under president Chen.
So in order to encourage Taiwanese to enter into the stock market, government must remove the dishonest double service fee collected by the stock trading center.
If possible, government should set up an online platform where there is no service fee for online stock trading.
Expensive double service fees and stock transaction tax are the stumbling blocks which must be removed in order to create a healthy, dynamic Taiwan stock market or else the current Taiwan stock market is too expensive for the local to enter.
Hope government takes care of the local stock trader by removing transaction tax just like foreigner are allowed the free stock transaction tax currently as well as removing the service fee for online stock trader.
Furthermore, stock trading tax is only unfairly targeted to the local, Taiwanese but not to the investment from abroad, foreigner. So with foreign investment withdrawal, the stock market drys like an African forest because the local is not stupid to consider to pay tax even for the heavy loss stock trading and consequently the local don't invest a lot or not at all in the stock market.
Free money for the government especially by collecting the stock trading tax shall harm the stock market as it is not SUSTAINABLE.
Great Europe and US have no stock trading tax so Taiwan should follow the right lead or Taiwan stock market has no future.
Taiwan government should not use tax money of billions of dollar investing in stock market, driving up the price of stock market just like before under Tsai government and consequently only most foreign investment withdrew from the stock market with billions of dollar profit recently, leaving the current price of stock market unsustainable. It is not a government place to play fire in the stock market with tax payer's money or else gifting billions of dollar profit to the foreign investment coming from Taiwan Tax Payer's money as well as lifting the stock price to an unsustainable level unlogical and unreasonable and unreachable to the local for the long run which shall collapse the stock market sooner or later and consequently the stock market shall not be recognized by international investment.
Overview, government should allow the free run of stock market, no interference, not collecting tax whatsoever including the stock transaction tax just like under president Chen's era and not investing of tax payer's money into the stocker just like ignorant Tsai in order to pop up the stock price to an unsustainable level which is indeed much more harmful in the long run.
It's good to teach diving in Taiwan, I know a Canadian girl is teaching in North Taiwan and make a lot of money.
What a joke!
Hope president Tsai also remove service fee collected from the trading center for all making of losing stock trading, even paying higher fee for making of winning stock trading is not an issue.
Please remember that government should serve people so government should not add burden to the people in the first place.
Also older people and govt workers tend to get paid better than younger people or private sector workers. Many govt workers receive generous pensions. Also Taipei city has many rich business people and property owners. It skews the numbers.
According to govt stats Taipei city median earnings are around 47000 ntd per month.
Outside Taipei city earnings drop a lot except for Hsinchu science park.
Basically professional managerial types get a range of 50 to 70k basic here.Of course accountants doctors and lawyers general managers and some engineers earn a lot more than that.
You are basically one of them.
First of all, what you're saying are personal anecdotes. They are about as credible as the user-contributed figures on this site.
Besides, it's pretty obvious that you have never gone up to the contribution page. No. It doesn't ask "your personal monthly net salary". It asks "average personal monthly net salary" of the city, which means the figures are added by what the contributors perceive as the monthly net salary of the city. If you don't buy it then fine, not my problem, but just remember, it corresponds to the official statistics pretty closely.
Btw the household income in Taipei is around 1.5 mil. That means the average salary is around 60-70k. 60k after tax sounds about right.
I’ve seen more fancy cars around Taipei city than Canada.
My Taiwanese husband make 75k as high school teacher.
Same issue in my city VANCOUVER, many people just make $2,000 CAD a month ( about 44k TWD ).
Basically the living quality of $2,000 CAD salary in Vancouver is worst than 17K TWD in Taipei.
First of all, the figures are mostly correct. According to official figures the salary in Taipei is something like 60-70k per month, and the national average is like 50k.
And for those who keep arguing that it should be lower, you do realise that numbeo's figures come from contributors? Contribute away then, it's not like anyone's keeping you from doing so. The webpage clearly states these data are based on 1824 entries from 247 different contributers over the past 18 months, if you disagree with them so much, just submit your own entries.
The data just proved that a lot of people actually make higher income than you.
So stop complain and be a man.
Min Wage is 21k.
Nurses work a lot of OT to make 50k as do office workers.
For a Flight attendant to make 100k its rare and must be putting crazy hours or not located in Taipei. Some choose Macau or HK and get paid more.
Their actually salary based off 40hr week would be worse than what Anonymous writes lol..sadly
Most of Anonymous figures are right. Just a couple items off mentioned below
1. Min wage
2. Nurse Salary
Asean nations don't see sincerity in the new southbound policy initiated by Tsai Ing-wen because unlike other respectable nations which act diplomatically and proficiently to achieve the reciprocal permanent visa waivers, Tsai Ing-wen instead offered a 1 year visa waiver to asean nations and even demanded the receiver nations to offer the reciprocal visa in return brazenly which asean nations took her request as an insult instead and abhorrently ignored her request in response. With this 1 year visa waiver by Tsai Ing-wen, asean nations would understand how bad her deplomatic tactic, kind of no brainer it is, unlike never seen before among all of her predecessors who have secured permanent visa waivers for Taiwan from among the greatest nations of this world so Taiwanese can visit pretty much places in europe and america visa free which I believe Tsai Ing-wen also enjoys herself of her predecessors' effort before, without thinking to continue her predecessors's effort at all, it is absolutely regrettable.
South Korea is a level player of Taiwan in term of economics. South Korea was always behind Taiwan until 2008, thanks to the effort of Tsai Ing-wen's boss as well as her predecessor Chen Shui-bian who took the president office from 2000-2008 who left Taiwan with no energy to push forward in greater economics fight with the then sole competitor South Korea because he created division, corruption and wasting among Taiwan society which has been dragging Taiwan since then until now so Taiwan is far left behind South Korea in term of economics. Taiwan seems to have no way to overtake South Korea anymore since the division, corruption and wasting have been continuing under the present president term.
South Korea is a people nation, meaning the South Korea government have been fighting for the right and privilege of its people, especially in area of visa waive access. So people of the South Korea have the privilege of visa waiver access almost covering to the whole asean nation as well as all of the visa waiver privileges which Taiwan people enjoy in europe and america.
South Korea have reciprocal 3-months visa waivers with these nations, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, etc but Taiwan have no visa waiver with any of these mentioned nations at all which the people of South Korea currently enjoys, how sad it is for the people of Taiwan because the Taiwan government is sleeping instead of fighting for its people for the visa waiver privilege unlike the people-oriented South Korea government.
People of Taiwan is NOT hoping and expecting the government of Tsai Ing-wen to create a miracle of better economics upon the current worsen economics left behind by Chen Shui-bian because of people of Taiwan don't have trust in her sincerity unless she break her tie clean with the rich gang of the accomplices of the corrupt leader Chen Shui-bian and proves as an uncorruptedable leader of Taiwan government.
But at least for the people of Taiwan, Taiwan people have only one expectation and it is also their greatest expectation from the government of Tsai Ing-wen which is to secure and recover the privilege of visa waivers as much as the visa waiver privileges the people of South Korea enjoys nowadays. Or else could Tsai Ing-wen please explain what you can achieve in your president term or drag down Taiwan any further to a corner when your president term is up, worse than the situation of Taiwan during your predecessor Chen Shui-bian was in the office. if you couldn't fulfill even one wish of the people of Taiwan, what the meaning of your existence as a president to the people of Taiwan would be. One achievement of this expectation, the people of Taiwan would remember you forever, but not whatever you're doing now would get Taiwan to nowhere which you shall certainly realize after many years of retirement from your president office.
Creation of visa waiver must be worked out between nations in sincere manner in permanent basis indeed so to secure permanent visa waiver Tsai Ing-wen must send her capable delegations to nations where she would like to establish reciprocal permanent visa waivers with, not kind of using her spokesman from her office broadcasting her message which was insincere and would never be accepted by other nations which Taiwan would like to establish reciprocal permanent visa waivers with.
So Taiwan must be sincere in both cooperation and actions to achieve securing the permanent visa waiver with many nations the soonest possible which the South Korea government have already long secured for its people.
Most of my Taiwanese friends get like 35K to 45K, some even Higher.
It's the same issue in US and Canada, you'll get only $1,500 USD or lower a month if you work as service retail.
$1,500 USD is probably the $15K TWD living standard in Taiwan, you can't even pay the rent in US
so you'll need to get a second job or something.
So you need to think about why you only get 22K and a lot of people in Taiwan have better wage than you.
Min wage is 22k /mth now.
Flight attendants make around 60 or 70k average.
Nurses prob 50k if they can hack the bad hours.
Most of the other figures about right as averages. Hsinchu city has the highest salaried earners in Taiwan due to electronic engineers in huge electronics companies .
The earnings in Taipei are skewed higher partly because of highly paid governnent workers
Minimum wage is higher, and Flight attendant are usually higher than 60K
I have a friend in China Airlines, she makes almost 100K a month.
EVA Air usually around 70K.
Nurses are higher than 50K, 40K is for graduates.
Minimum wage is 21,009 so the premise of your figures are wrong.
The figures here in no way factor in how much millionaires and billionaires make. Which billionaire would come up here and contribute the statistics with their monthly income? Don't be silly.
TAIPEI WAGES
Min Wage 18,000
Factory Work 18,000-20,000
Typical Office Worker 22,000-40,000
Nurse 30,000-40,000
Taxi Driver 60,000-70,000
Flight Attendant 50,000-60,000?
Foreign English Teacher 55,000-70,000
Engineer 50,000-70,000
Doctor 150,000-400,000
Foreigner Specialist with Foreign Income---150,000-300,000
I think it's the same problem around the world.
Even you have full time job in EU or Canada, still can't afford living there.
They must be out of their mind to offer you something like 30k!! i average nearly 75k and still can not afford to enjoy a lavish life
No, 30K is not enough to survive in Taipei.
Cost of living in Taipei is crazy high.
Very nice !
I have to join there as a software developer.
We are a couple moving to Taipei in January. Are there any good trade fairs to meet employers or find opportunities there?
Thank you!
Because some people to make more than 100K
That's why we call it " average "
It's like Canada here, the average in come is 80K TWD
But most of young people only get 47K, which is not enough to living in cities.
On top of being discriminated by Thailand not providing the Thailand visa waiver to Taiwan among Taiwan's asian tigers members, the current Tsai president foolishly announced to give a one month Taiwan free visa access to Thailand from this August but Taiwanese are not still provided the reciprocal Thailand visa waiver. So the interest of Taiwanese is totally ignored by the current Tsai president and her government.
Comparing the contribution of visa waiver between the current Tsai president to the previous Ma president, Taiwanese enjoy 0 count of visa waiver under Tsai president so Taiwanese really miss the contribution of the previous Ma president who secured many visa waivers for Taiwanese from many countries including great UK, US, all Europe, etc.
So not sure anymore whether or not Tsai president is a Thailand citizen since she want to protect the interest of Thailand instead of the interest of Taiwanese. If this were the case, Taiwanese solemnly urge Tsai president to step down and instead serve Thai people in Thailand since she is not willing to serve the interest of Taiwanese anymore.
Or else Taiwanese solemnly urge Tsai president to secure the reciprocal Thailand free waiver for Taiwanese before providing the one month Taiwan free visa access to Thailand just like what the previous Ma president contributed before.
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Let's clarify the identity of Taiwan, Taiwan has always been an inseperated part of mainland China except during 1895 to 1945 where Japan possessed Taiwan because China lost the 1895 Sino-Japan war and gave in the Japan demand of passing Taiwan in the treaty. However, Taiwan was finally returned to the mainland China from it was lost during the Qing dynasty to the republic of China under the great leadership of KMT president Chaing right after WW2 where Japan lost the 1945 Sino-Japan war.
So KMT president Chaing was actually the Savior of Taiwan which the current Taiwan new government must acknowledge the accomplishment of KMT president Chaing for Taiwan liberation because it is the true. The true is like the light and the light always defeats the darkness eventually so the current Taiwan new government should not be in darkness but instead have a correct vision like the light which should lead to the right peaceful direction.
Taiwan has been returned to the mainland China right after WW2 as mentioned earlier and is no longer belonged to Japan. So those who claimed to be the offspring of Japanese seeking the right of motherland on Taiwan should go back to Japan because Taiwan is not a part of Japan anymore since the end of WW2. Since the identity of Taiwan has been clear, it is time to expel the very daughter of Japan, hung lady fox to where she mentioned belonged to but afraid Japan may not want this old-men-bullying ugly old useless fox.
The new Taiwan government recently announced to seize or recover money by Force from the saving of people who fail to pay the fee of the national health insurance.
Most of the fee of the national health insurance is directly deducted through the salary. And those who did not pay the fee of the national health insurance are the unemployed Taiwanese. So it seems the new Taiwan government is targeting to punish and destroy the unemployed Taiwanese not paying the fee of the national health insurance instead of providing benefit and subsidy like UK, etc.
The international community have to stand up to protect the unemployed Taiwanese from being exploited by force undemocratically without human right by the Tyranny of the new Taiwan government and demand the new Taiwan government to govern her people democratically along with human right or the new Taiwan government should be shut off from the international community for punishment, not allowing to participate such as world health organization, etc
Please remember your action today benefits you an unexpected protection tomorrow, thanks to the effort of international community for human right and democracy.
Comparing the Taiwan's paid channels to the free channels in Mainland China, you would be surprised to see the quality of the the Mainland China's free channels is much better, especially for news, unlike Taiwan's news channels which repeating even insignificant, unworthy, rubbish news throughout the days or even for 2 or 3 days as Taiwan's news channels have only a very few news to broadcast even sometimes or many times steals news from Japan , how unworthy of the Taiwan's news channels really is. The Mainland China's free channels does not repeat a lot, just 2 or 3 times the most, not throughout the days, all kind of worthy local and international news are well covered but does not steal the work of others like Taiwan's news channels does. Advertisement on the Mainland China's free channels is much less than a third of the Taiwan's paid channels. And a few of the the Mainland China's free channels have no advertising and broadcast worthy programs throughout the day.
the Taiwan's paid channels should not include advertising as they are not free channels. And if the Taiwan's paid channels want to earn advertisement, they must be turned into free channels in order to return justice and fairness to the viewer of the Taiwan's paid channels.
Ma throughout his life was in the government office and is not worldly sophisticated in the matter of running the better economy, but instead was calculating too much for tax earning even to every corner ignoring the bigger picture resulting to the extent of destroying Taiwan economy.
Stock market was once the only place where Taiwanese enjoy trading stock and earning a small amount of dividend without any burden of tax.
Taiwanese investing in the stock market also tremendously benefit the economy of Taiwan because it allows the businesses to access the needed fund through the stock market and enable the operation of the businesses to run smoothly which generate a lot of employment.
Since tax was imposed for both stock trading and dividend earning, most people continuously withdraw their fund from the stock market and this has started hurting the economy of Taiwan until now unlike never seen before and much businesses were either collapsed or force closed and this result continuous job loss across all industries since then.
So for the sake of restoring the healthy economy of Taiwan, the new Taiwan government must abolish the tax imposed by the previous president Ma for stock trading, dividend earning and the changes of the rest related to the stock.
Please remember the Taiwanese investing in the stock market are indeed helping and contributing towards the better economy of Taiwan and it is absolutely wrong to punish these great people with tax burden.
The unemployed Taiwanese are the most pitiful creature among the developed counties because they do not receive benefits or subsidies from their government unlike the other developed countries. Even worse, the jobless Taiwanese also currently have to pay the heath insurance which costs them at least 700 Taiwan dollar a month.
The 年金 insurance is only targeted to the jobless Taiwanese and it would cost them at least 850 Taiwan dollar a month. The most terrible part, the unemployed Taiwanese would be heavily fined with the amount ranging from thousands to ten of thousand for the late payment of the 年金 insurance fee. The new Taiwan government also mentioned the relatives such as spouse, etc were also responsible for the payment of the 年金 insurance fee of their jobless Taiwanese.
Probably from 5th May 2017 , the unemployed Taiwanese have to pay both fees of the 年金 heath insurance and the 年金 insurance which would cost them at least 1,500 Taiwan dollar a month (700 + 850 =1550).
TV broadcast a sorrowful news repeatedly today through all news channels which mentioned a Taiwanese family of 5, husband, wife (born 1990 very young), 3 sons (., 6, 8 years old respectively) committed suicide by burning charcoal and their landlord found their dead bodies in their room today. The landlord said they owed them 4 months of rent with the total amount of 36,000 Taiwan dollar. There were also a bill of warning of late payment of electricity fee in front of the door. It was said the electricity was long cut off before they committed suicide, meaning they had lived in their flat without electricity for many weeks or probably months before they committed suicide.
So given the current sorrowful situation of the unemployed Taiwanese, further forcing them to pay for the 年金 insurance out of their empty pocket of the unemployed Taiwanese is indeed very heartless. Hope the new Taiwan government would be merciful not only to the unemployed Taiwanese but also to the government itself because revolution always arises out of this kind of hopeless situation throughout the history. Instead the new Taiwan government must cancel the program of subsidizing 20,000 Taiwan dollar for the new salary of 31,500 Taiwan dollar and reduce the living cost to alleviate the burden of its mass people. Affordability which also means cheap is the secret that makes people content and happy. The right decision you, the new Taiwan government, make would leave you a good mark in future history or else it would be endless curses.