TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s labor ministry said Friday that newly employed graduates earned an average monthly salary of NT$39,000 (US$1,239) in 2025, up 5.4% from a year earlier.
Economic Daily News reported that the data covers about 138,000 graduates. Nearly all had at least a high school education, with 73% holding a university degree and 21.5% a master’s degree.
The average wage rose by NT$2,000 from 2024, showing steady growth in entry-level pay. University graduates earned an average of NT$36,000 per month.
By industry, health care and social work services had the highest starting salaries at NT$42,000. The financial and insurance sector followed with an average of NT$39,000, Liberty Times reported.
Postgraduates earned an average monthly salary of NT$53,000. The highest pay was in the information and communications fields at NT$61,000, followed by manufacturing at around NT$60,000.
Median monthly wages stood at NT$36,000 overall. The figures were NT$34,000 for university graduates and NT$51,000 for postgraduates, suggesting limited income gaps within the same education levels.
At the lower end, 17.2% of new graduates, or about 24,000 people, earned the minimum wage of NT$28,590, per CTS News.
A gender pay gap remained, with women earning NT$38,000 on average, or 90.8% of men’s NT$41,000. The gap widened slightly from the previous year to 9.2%, per UDN.
The largest gap was among postgraduates, where women earned NT$49,000 compared with NT$56,000 for men. The ministry said this reflects higher male participation in science and engineering fields, which tend to offer higher pay.
