Taiwan offers a highly skilled, tech-oriented workforce with clear statutory insurances and a portable labor pension. All-in employer cost runs around 1.17x the gross salary. Here is what to know before your first Taiwan hire.
Employment runs under the Labor Standards Act, with mandatory labor insurance, national health insurance, and a 6% employer labor-pension contribution. Written terms and enrolment are required from the start.
The monthly minimum is about TWD 27,470 in 2024*, with an hourly floor, revised annually.
Monthly payroll. A year-end bonus around Lunar New Year is customary but not statutory.
Around 12 public holidays a year, with make-up rules when they fall on weekends.
Written terms are standard. There is no statutory probation, though a customary three-month period is common.
Employer costs sit around 17%, split across the employer shares of labor insurance and national health insurance plus the 6% labor-pension contribution.
The 6% employer labor-pension contribution goes to the employee's individual account, so it is portable across jobs.
Employees pay income tax and their insurance share, withheld at source, with an annual filing. Withholding is the employer's responsibility, which under EOR means ours.
From 3 days after six months up to 30 days a year with long tenure under the Labor Standards Act.
Eight weeks of maternity leave, paid by the employer for staff with enough service.
Several days of paid paternity leave, plus shared parental leave with an insurance benefit.
Up to 30 days of half-paid ordinary sick leave a year, with more for hospitalisation.
Notice runs from 10 to 30 days by tenure, and dismissal requires a statutory ground.
Severance under the current pension system is about half a month's pay per year of service, capped at six months.
No statutory probation, though a customary period is used; dismissal still needs a valid ground.
A contractor working like an employee can be reclassified, with back insurance and pension contributions.
*All figures are estimates from public sources (2025-26), pending ops verification - same basis as the EOR cost calculator. Not tax or legal advice.
Compliant Taiwan employment contract, payroll, insurances, and labor pension, handled. One invoice, flat $399 per month.