Are the rumors true??? That fresh graduate has to find a job with base salary of 47.500??
Is there any other job that offers salary that high other than a teaching job??
Also, I saw some job post in 104 that said the company can offer Work Permit and most of them are Cafes or Hotels… With salary under 40k. How is that possible?
I also have some friends who got jobs and their salary was 28k and 32k!
Tell me lord, how am I supposed to calculate and choose which company that are not suspicious!!!
P.S: I know I also need to check the Capital of the company (to be 1000萬) but the base salary regulations confuses the heck out of me…
47k is for white collar jobs. Like the ones who ask for 2 year work experience or a master degree and all that. But u can get work permit to work for lower salary using the scoring method where u need certain points to be eligible to work here.
Those numbers are for locals. If the foreigner has graduated from a local university there is more “flexibility” in earning less, but generally speaking, foreigners should be paid more to justify the company’s hiring them over a local.
The work permit stuff is also different for foreigner graduates from local universities, recent legislation allows up to one year I think to stay looking for a job and other allowances.
The work permit application though is the company’s business. One normally trusts that the company hiring knows what they are doing. Which translates as sleeping with one eye open, not trusting at all. But until you get your APRC, you depend on them to work here, so try and work and stay alert.
It’s a double edged sword isn’t it, once some companies find out they can pay less they’ll pay less
By the way I was getting 50k a mth in my first Taiwan company job and that was more than 2 decades ago. Just saying.
We have to take into account it’s their first job out of uni, fresh grads won’t be getting 47k per mth on average in Taiwan.
I had a masters in a technical area and a native English speaker which all helped.
I’m just saying that 47k NOW should be equivalent to about 30-35k back then.
For sure not everyone is lucky enough, no shame there. I just can’t stand people saying it’s impossible. It’s detrimental to anyone reading these chats looking for info later on.
Money is survival. How do you open a company and get a visa and survive with no money and no work permit as a freshly graduated student ? Also companies require paying tax , business license fees and accounting and business address costs and a minimal revenue to generate to justify employment permits.
The problem is people who have lot of money think that the money they have is normal and not a lot
And it’s something everyone can make easily
And if they aren’t then either they aren’t trying or are losers
You can open a company with $1nt now. Its easy, painless. You can get a work visa this way, also easy. Read between the lines, I don’t want to explain it too obviously and get a pm warning and deleted…it’s easy as all hell now. Many do this and work around it quite easily. Even being a market vendor can get one above the minimum very easily.
Only difference is if someone wants to climb the ladder in a company in an industry that has very high (expensive) barriers. But as visas go, it’s a nothing burger now
As of January 2024 a student who graduates can apply for the extension of their ARC for upto 2 years to look for work. Additionally the draft amendments to the Foreign Talent Act if passed would see a graduate with an associate degree of higher being eligible for an open-work permit during that post-graduate extension of stay, therefore in theory would bring the salary requirement lower during that 2 year period.
I guess you might be able to get a work visa for a year or something. Maybe 3 years max as a rep. There’s a cost to opening a company and paying the monthly accounting fees etc. yYiu need to show revenue generation of how many million ntd to keep the permits going. And some counties will chase you about whether your company is legit etc.
The most obvious thing is making money from opening and running a company is very much not guaranteed. And even saying sell stuff in the market . Well ..you still need money and who wants to work in a market if they want to start a career in something eh?!? Most graduates should be focused on getting their career going in a given industry.
I was on a student visa for a while and running a company here. So that was a bit unusual I guess as well. But to get a student visa you need to be in class a certain number of hours per week.
