WAGES CONTINUE TO DROP, NEW LOW FOR 7TH YEAR |低薪化嚴重! "薪資中位數"40853元低於平均值

On November 7, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, issued a report on the median monthly wage in Taiwan in 2015, and the median monthly wage was $40 thousand853 NT Dollars. This number is lower than the average monthly wage, which rests at around 48 thousand. And when the mean is lower than the average, it shows that income distribution in Taiwan is skewed towards low income. It also indicates that income distribution in Taiwan is increasingly uneven. Wang Hsiao-chin, who works in the tourism industry, sacrificed her weekend holidays to increase her sales at the Taipei Tourism Exposition. Wang said she can relate to the low income issue in Taiwan, since she has to work overtime to earn over NT$30,000 a month. ==WANG HSIAO-CHIN, white-collar worker== There is no such thing as a standard for a salary raise. The minimum wage in Taiwan is very low. A lot of people need to pay their rent, which usually accounts for a large portion of their salary. Even though I do not have any additional costs, it is still difficult for me to save money every month, let alone buy a house. On Nov. 7, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, issued a report on the median monthly wage in Taiwan in 2015. The median monthly wage was NT$40,853, which is only 84.2 percent of the average monthly wage of NT$48,490. The wide gap between the two figures has set a grim new low for the seventh straight year. Those who earn below NT$40,853 a month in 2015, means that they are in the bottom 50 percent of all income earners. ==PAN NING-HSIN, Dep. Dir. DGBAS's Department of Census== If the statistics have a normal distribution, it means that the median equals the mathematical mean. However, if the median is less than the mathematical mean, than the distribution will be skewed to the right. ==CHIU CHUN-JUNG, VP TIER == Taiwan has never achieved the goal of making companies raise their employees' salary. We have always wanted to make them more competitive and grow through the reform of industrial structure. However, it does not offer any means of help to increase people's salary. The DGBAS said besides social structure problems, the merit pay system, which is adopted by many companies, is one of the reasons for low minimum wage and low median monthly wage in Taiwan. The report pointed out that those who work in the industrial sector have a higher median monthly wage than those in the service sector. Men's median monthly wage is higher than that of women, and technical experts' is higher than that of non-technical experts'. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH 從事觀光業的王小姐，碰到旅遊展能增加業績，招攬更多客人，但同時也得犧牲假日上班工作。對於低薪問題、她相當有感，因為這幾年薪水凍漲，而她得要一直加班，薪水才能突破30k。 ==上班族 王小秦== 說要加薪 都沒有很明確標準 然後我們基本薪資 普遍都很低 又要在外面租房子 其實算下來一個月 就算幾乎都沒額外的花費 存錢都很困難 更何況是買房子 台灣低薪問題嚴重，主計總處今天公布去年我國薪資的中位數為40,853元，占平均數48,490元的84.2％，比率創下7年新低。若將受雇者的薪資由高到低排序，排名在中間的人的薪資，就是薪資中位數。而薪資平均數則是將所有人的薪水加總，除以受雇者總人數。以民國104年為例，所領的薪資只要低於4萬0853元，就代表薪水是落在後段班，薪資比50%的人還低。 ==主計總處國勢普查處副處長 潘寧馨== 如果是個鐘形分配的話 就表示平均數跟中位數是同一個值 這兩個如果不是同一個數字 而是中位數比較低 平均數比較高的話 我們就會說他是 一個(薪資)右偏的分配 ==台經院副院長 邱俊榮== 在透過推力來形成 企業加薪的想法和共識 其實一直都沒有達到 我們都一直想要用拉力 透過產業結構的革新 讓廠商真正茁壯起來 來拉攏薪資 不過那個力道說穿了 真的是非常不足的 除了社會結構問題，主計總處表示，不少公司採用績效制，也造成受雇者的起薪偏低，也是影響薪資中位數的原因之一。此外，報告也指出，工業部門的薪資中位數高於服務業，男性高於女性，而專業技術人員也比非專業技術人員高。 記者 王柏文 陳立峰 台北報導