I’m a returnee.
“What’s a good starting salary for a English copywriting job in Taiwan?”
Can’t believe I didn’t pick up on the egregious grammar error in that thread title. I’m slipping. 
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That’s how much my local friend who dropped out of high school makes driving little shuttle boats in KH harbor, and it’s not like there is a shortage of people with boat licenses in Taiwan.
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These days I’d push for at least 90k doing tech-related copywriting work. Too easy to make good money with online/remote work these days.
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Anyone else doing tech-related copywriting for a local Taiwanese company and can shed some light on a current fair salary for a job that requires “3+ years of copywriting experience”? Or 4-5 years, which I would fall under.
Don’t accept less than 75k if you have a bit of tech background. If not, then still don’t accept much less than that.
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Where would one look for tech copywriting jobs in Taiwan?
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LinkedIn, and 104. I have found jobs from both
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75k and 14 month salary cycle. Although if you aren’t bilingual you’ll need to have some real skills.
If you have a tech background I wouldn’t take less than 90-100K NT/month, on a 14 month cycle, with a hybrid remote work environment. If they say no to remote work then go for 100-120K/month.
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The progression if you have a fair amount of experience in tech should be to not look for a Taiwan-based job. Sure 120K sounds great, and it IS nice, but as soon as you switch to working online for Western companies you can easily earn more than doubled that. If you have experience in tech, you are essentially wasting your potential in many cases by getting a local job. Money might not be the only consideration, and well, I get that. But I’d rather not have to put up with local bosses, fish bowl zero-sum thinking, and the dreaded triangular solutions to conflict, instead of just directly telling people to fix problems and address issues.
Best jobs are never from job boards, IMO, too. Best to hunt on company websites that you want to work for. Play the numbers game. The casino will win a lot, but all you need is one good win to send your life on a much better trajectory for your career.
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I totally agree, especially with a crypto company. 110-120k/usd a year is a pretty average salary for a remote job.
And then once they find out you live in Taiwan, they will adjust your salary back down to be in line with the lower cost of living here. 
No, not really the case. Plenty of companies just pay remote salaries that are geographically agnostic.
The technical writers who read and write only English I’ve known over the years have made in the 40k-50k range monthly. If the pay scale for such people has doubled they’ve sure come up in the world.
Has to be at least 60k. Less than that is someone coming out of a local uni, usually not 100% native speaker.
I don’t know much about this profession but isn’t ChatGPT and AI about to make it extinct?
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No. It’s about to make the job much easier to do.
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A lot faster to do… so once employees realize this and productivity goes up for each copywriter there will be an oversupply and wages risk going down.
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