As we all know, Taiwan, China plays an extremely important role in the global semiconductor industry. Whether in the field of semiconductor manufacturing or chip design, Taiwan has strong strength.
According to SIA data, Taiwan ranked first in the global semiconductor production capacity in 2020, reaching 22%. In the pure wafer generation market, Taiwan accounts for about 1/3 of the world's chip production capacity. In the advanced process logic chip market below 10nm, Taiwan accounts for more than 92% of the world's production capacity.
In terms of specific manufacturers, Taiwan's TSMC is the world's largest wafer foundry, and ASE Investment Holdings is the world's largest semiconductor packaging and testing factory.
In the field of chip design, among the top ten fabless chip design manufacturers in the world, MediaTek , Novatek, Realtek are all Taiwanese manufacturers.
Since the global core shortage broke out in the fourth quarter of 2020, the performance of semiconductor manufacturers has surged, and the level of employee salaries and benefits has also increased.
So, among the many semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan, what are the salary levels?
According to Xinzhixun's query on Taiwan Stock Exchange, employee welfare and salary data of about 76 Taiwanese semiconductor listed companies show:
In 2021, the average employee salary expense of Taiwanese semiconductor listed companies is NT$2,038,000 (approximately RMB 46.02 million)/year, an increase of approximately 22.8% compared to 2020; the average employee welfare expenses (including wages) are NT$2,238,000 (approximately RMB 505,300)/year, an increase of approximately 21.6% compared to 2020.
In 2021, the top ten companies in the average employee salary (annual salary) of listed semiconductor companies in Taiwan are:
Ruiding: NT$6.119 million, approximately RMB 1.382 million, a year-on-year increase of 153.4%;
Novatek: NT$ 5.162 million yuan, approximately RMB 1.166 million, a year-on-year increase of 58.4%;
MediaTek: NT$5.138 million, approximately RMB 1.160 million, a year-on-year increase of 50.5%;
Silicon Innovation: NT$4.949 million, approximately RMB 1.117 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 132.6%;
Realtek: NT$4.866 million, approximately RMB 1.099 million, a year-on-year increase of 50.0%;
Jinghao Technology: NT$4.605 million, approximately RMB 1.040 million, a year-on-year increase An increase of 117.7%;
Sun Moonlight Investment Control: NT$4.605 million, approximately RMB 1.040 million, a year-on-year increase of 61.9%;
Xiangshuo: NT$3.674 million, approximately RMB 830,000, a year-on-year decrease of 2.8%;
Crystal Phase Optoelectronics: NT$3.356 million, approximately RMB 758,000, a year-on-year increase of 80%;
Aipu: NT$3.284 million, approximately RMB 742,000, a year-on-year increase of 34.2%;
can be seen , among the top ten semiconductor manufacturers, 9 are semiconductor design manufacturers, and the semiconductor packaging and testing factory ASE Investment Holdings ranked seventh. Wafer foundry TSMC only ranked 19th, with an average employee annual salary of NT$2.464 million, a year-on-year increase of only 3%.
The main reason is that the main personnel of semiconductor design companies are R&D personnel, while many employees of semiconductor manufacturing companies such as TSMC are grassroots employees on the production line, and the number is huge. Data shows that TSMC’s total global employees in 2021 are 54,184, while Ruiding, the number one company, has only 687 employees.
It is particularly worth mentioning that compared with 2020, the annual average salary of employees of Ruiding, which ranked first in 2021, has the highest year-on-year increase, reaching 153.4%. The largest year-on-year decrease is Chengchuang, which has dropped 24.3% year-on-year. .
It should be pointed out that the above employee salaries include basic salary, overtime pay, bonuses, remuneration (dividends) and other regular and non-recurring salaries, and may also include evaluation amounts paid based on shares (such as employee stock option certificates) .
Especially for leading listed semiconductor companies, performance bonuses and remuneration (dividends) are also relatively generous.For example: The total employee performance bonuses and remuneration (dividends) approved by TSMC for 2021 is approximately NT$71.207 billion. If TSMC has 54,184 employees at the end of 2021, each person can receive an average of approximately NT$1.3142 million (approximately RMB 296,700). Yuan).
In addition, if you look at the "average employee welfare expenses" data (including salary, plus labor and health insurance, pensions, and other employee welfare expenses), the top ten manufacturers are basically the same as the top ten manufacturers in "average employee salary expenses" , only the ninth and tenth rankings have been interchanged, with Aipu ranking ninth and Crystal Phase Optoelectronics ranking tenth.
Editor: Xinzhixun-Rurounijian
