Average Year-end Bonus Around 1.3 Months Wages 今年平均年終約1.3個月 金融業2.7個月

For office workers, the highlight of the year is receiving their year-end bonus. According to a new job bank survey, companies on average are handing out year-end bonuses worth 1.33 months of wages this year, the highest level in nine years.

Office workers always look forward to the end of the year, when they receive their annual bonuses. According to a job bank survey, companies are on average planning to hand out year-end bonuses equivalent to 1.33 months of salary, the highest level in nine years. For the 12th straight year, the financial sector will be handing out the highest bonuses, worth 2.07 months of wages. Next is the semiconductor industry at 1.78 months, followed by the construction industry at 1.68 months. The hospitality and catering industry is handing out a bonus of only 0.85 months of salary, but this is an increase of 0.35 months compared to 2021, showing it is emerging from the pandemic haze.

Stanley Hua, General Manager, 104 Human Resource Institute: “They (the hospitality and catering industry) were impacted the most during the past few years, and then there were the borders opening and other bullish factors. My personal opinion is that there is a pretty good chance that salaries, year-end bonuses and benefits will continue rising next year.”

The average annual salary this year is NT$677,000 due to a combination of shortage and inflation. This is a seven-year high and an increase of 3.1 percent compared to 2021. The semiconductor industry had the highest average annual salary for the seventh straight year at NT$969,000. Meanwhile, 47.3 percent of companies are willing to offer higher salaries to attract talent, resulting in a situation where salaries given to newcomers are higher than those of existing employees.

Stanley Hua, General Manager, 104 Human Resource Institute: “There's a gap of about 10 percent in the middle. This situation of colleagues with different remuneration will become a problem. In other words, the job shortage issue won't substantially change or be resolved because new employees will come in and existing employees may leave due to this.”

A job bank says companies are under pressure to adjust salaries due to the soaring inflation. They will do so through bonuses instead of base pay adjustments, so the base pay burden will be smaller. This is also the main reason more companies are handing out year-end bonuses and for the new high in the number of months.

每到年底上班族最關心的就是年終獎金究竟可以領多少？人力銀行上午公布今年企業年終調查結果，企業預期平均發放1.33個月，創9年新高；金融業2.07個月，12年來蟬聯冠軍；再來是半導體業1.78個月；營建業也有1.68個月；雖然住宿餐飲業的年終平均只有0.85個月，但已經比去年增加0.35個月，顯見逐步走出疫情陰霾。

104人資學院總經理花梓馨表示：「過去幾年住宿餐飲業這邊衝擊最大，再加上國門開放等等利多因素，我個人的看法是明年在薪酬薪資相關，或者是年終及相關的福利，蠻大機率它會持續往上走。」

在缺工加通膨等雙重因素推升下，今年國內勞工平均年薪來到67.7萬元，創7年新高，比去年成長3.1％。其中半導體業平均薪資高達96.9萬元7連霸，直逼年薪百萬，更有47.3%的企業願意用高薪來吸引人才，進而造成新進人員薪資超越在職員工的情況。

104人資學院總經理花梓馨指出：「中間約莫產生10%的差距，這樣其實確實會產生一個隱憂，就是有所謂同工不同酬的問題，也就是說缺工的問題其實沒有實質性的改變跟解決，原因是新進人員進來，舊的人可能會因為這個因素而離開。」

人力銀行認為，面對飛漲物價，企業有調薪壓力，因此會透過本薪以外的獎金加給，相對本薪負擔較小，這也是成為發放年終企業比例提升及預期月數攀新高的主因。