Part-time employees earn more as hourly wage surpasses monthly salary

Part-time employees earn more as hourly wage surpasses monthly salary

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The minimum monthly wage will finally break NT$30,000 next year, as the government announced an 11th consecutive increase to reach NT$30,900. The minimum hourly wage is also rising to NT$205. That means, if you work for 40 hours a week on the minimum wage, you would earn NT$36,080 a month, NT$5,180 more than the minimum monthly wage. Some feel this is unfair as prices continue to rise, and full-time employees struggle to get raises.

Mr. Sung works part-time at a hot pot restaurant at 10:30am on his day off to earn extra money.

Mr. Sung
Part-time employee
I want to earn some extra cash. Part-time work is more flexible. Sometimes a full-time job is all in one place, which can be a little tedious. But with part-time work you can try different things, and even take jobs at short-term gigs like exhibitions or sports games.

Next year, the minimum hourly wage is set to rise to NT$205. Working eight hours a day for 22 days a month on an hourly wage would earn you NT$36,080, which is more than NT$5,000 over the minimum monthly salary of NT$30,900.

Accountant
Gets paid monthly
It’s really unfair. With the minimum wage rising, a business like a breakfast shop might pass those higher costs on to customers through higher prices. Rather than being tied down to a full-time job, some of my friends would rather work two part-time jobs because it’s more flexible. They can travel abroad when they want and even get cheaper plane tickets.

Shen Yu-wei
Restaurant manager
Our ratio of full-time to part-time employees is three to seven, so we have fewer full-time employees. We’ve explained to our staff that if you’re on a monthly salary, you’ll receive additional benefits over the long term, like birthday bonuses, birthday leave, and employee meal benefits. There are also benefits that accumulate with seniority, like annual leave.

Over the past decade, Taiwan’s minimum monthly wage has risen by 54.4%, while the minimum hourly wage has increased by more than 70%, making it harder for businesses to recruit full-time employees.

#minimumwage #fulltime #parttime #Taiwan #wages #wageincrease #raise #flexibility #work #employee

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正職月薪輸打工族"做好做滿" 上班族直呼不公平

2026-10-06

最低工資連11漲，明年元旦開始，月薪衝破3字頭，來到3萬0900元，時薪衝到205元，不過外界發現，如果時薪打工族一天上8小時的班，一個月可以領到3萬6080元，整整比正職人員多出5180元，這讓剛出社會的基層人員坦言心理不平衡，時薪調整，物價貴，但正職人員加薪並不容易。

穿著一身工作服，宋先生把握正職休假日，早上10點半到麻辣鍋店報到打工。

[[兼職人員宋先生]]
“就想要多賺點錢這樣子，因為兼職比較自由，因為有時候正職工作，就是比較固定在一個地方，比較乏味一點，他們就是可能去做兼職，嘗試不同的東西，短期的那種，像展覽或是那種球賽，可能比較短期性的，可以去安排這樣子”

明年元旦開始，最低工資時薪突破200元，來到205元，假設打工族一天工作8小時、一個月排22天，時薪制月收入站上3萬6080元，對比最低月薪3萬0900元，足足多出5180元。

[[領月薪會計人員]]
“蠻不公平的，基本薪資調高的話，比如說早餐店好了，那他們的成本，其實也是轉嫁在餐飲上面，我有一些朋友他就會覺得說，與其這樣子被正職綁住，倒不如就是兼兩份差，就是這樣的話時間還彈性，想出國就出國，而且還可以買到便宜的機票”

[[連鎖麻辣鍋總經理沈佑威]]
“我們現在目前的正職，跟兼職的比例是3比7，那也就是說正職其實比較少，同樣也都有跟員工這邊來表示說，其實你如果是月薪的話，長期下來你會有公司一些額外的其他的福利，比如說生日獎金，生日假，員工的這個用餐福利等等，那還有一些福利是，長期因為年資所累積，像是特休啊這一些”

台灣近十年來，最低月薪累計漲幅54.4%，時薪卻是漲超過七成，兩者相差16.4個百分點，時薪高過月薪，也讓月薪正職工作缺工更加嚴重，連帶影響企業的長久經營。

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