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Updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 0:10 am TWN, By Camaron Kao ,The China Post

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1111 survey reports salary conditions in 2011

Research and development (R&D), construction, and project design are three job categories with the highest salary, yet salaries have stagnated in 2010 to 2011, according to 1111, a human resources company.

“This is because jobs of R&D, construction, and project design require the most training,” Henry Ho (何啟聖), public relations director of 1111 said.

The stagnation of the salaries of these jobs may be due to the declining housing market in Taiwan and the European debt crisis in 2011, 1111 stated. The European debt crisis hit Taiwan's IT industry severely and IT companies were forced to offer their employees unpaid leave in 2011.

Jobs in the beauty industry, restaurants, and hotels, along with jobs in the transportation and lifestyle industries are of the lowest salary, yet salaries in these sectors are rising most rapidly.

“This reflects the relatively lower threshold of these jobs and the growing demand of the service industry in Taiwan,” according to 1111 company.

“The rising tourist industry and the growing number of tourists from mainland might be the cause,” the company claimed.

In terms of the size of companies, big companies offer more in terms of salary than small companies, 1111 said.

According to Ho, the salary of new employees rose from 2010 to 2011 on average. In terms of education level of new employees, in 2011, a college graduate might earn only NT$1,000 (US$31.25) more a month than a high school graduate. But with a master's degree, a person could earn NT$10,000 (US$312.5) more a month than a college graduate on average. The salary of a new employee with a Ph.D., however, dropped from NT$59,333 (US$1,854.16) to NT$50,269 (US$1570.28), by 18.03 percent from 2009 to 2011 on average, stated Ho.

B&B Ambassador Ranks as Top Job

East BNB's website offered the job of ambassador of bed and breakfasts (B&B) in Taiwan with salary of NT$1.5 million (US$46,875) for six months with free accommodation in B&B's around Taiwan. The job offer epitomizes the strength of the rising tourist industry in Taiwan and the rising salary of tourism-related jobs.

East BNB's website received more than 2,000 applications in two days. The position requires six months of travel and staying in 100 B&B's around Taiwan, taking photos and writing stories of the experience on its travel blog.

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