{"id":792984,"date":"2026-07-30T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792984\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:29:10","slug":"taiwanese-men-earned-1-54-times-more-than-women-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792984\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese men earned 1.54 times more than women in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The average annual income of Taiwanese men was NT$754,172 (US$23,244) in 2024, 1.54 times that of women, who earned NT$489,894 on average, marking the smallest gender income gap since 2016, a Ministry of Finance report released yesterday showed.<\/p>\n

By income source, the largest disparity was in income from professional practice, with men earning an average of NT$240,689 annually, 1.83 times the NT$131,237 earned by women, the report said.<\/p>\n

For salaries and wages, men earned an average of NT$839,609 a year, or 1.39 times as much as the NT$604,101 earned by women, it said.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of the Workforce Development Agency via CNA<\/p>\n

The only income category in which women out-earned men was separation pay.<\/p>\n

Women received an average of NT$682,035 annually, compared with NT$581,245 for men, the report said.<\/p>\n

The male-to-female income ratio was first recorded at 1.57 in 2016. It gradually declined to 1.55 in 2020 before rising to a peak of 1.60 in 2022. The ratio then fell to 1.58 in 2023 and 1.54 in 2024, the report said.<\/p>\n

Separately, the report showed that Taiwan had 2,824 profit-seeking enterprises with capital exceeding NT$1 billion.<\/p>\n

Men held positions as the responsible person, legal representative or manager at 2,381 of those companies, accounting for 84.3 percent, while women held the same positions at 443 companies, or 15.7 percent \u2014 the highest share since records began, the data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average annual income of Taiwanese men was NT$754,172 (US$23,244) in 2024, 1.54 times that of women, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,9797,47794,4083,4082],"class_list":["post-792984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gender-pay-gap","tag-ministry-of-finance","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-4082"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}