Affected by the epidemic, the K-type development of the industry has expanded the salary M-type structure; according to the statistics of the General Accounting Office, the total salary of all employees from January to May this year was 62,736 yuan, an annual increase of 3.63%. However, the gap between the education industry, which has the lowest total salary, and the financial insurance industry, which has the highest total salary, has increased from 3.6 times in 2019 to 3.8 times. The M-type is obvious. It is estimated that more than 1.03 million employed people are in the low-wage storm. people.
The accommodation and catering industry and support service industry are also caught in the low-wage storm. Regardless of the level of supervisors and employees, the total salary following bonuses and overtime pay is less than 40,000 yuan, and the education industry is even lower than 35,000 yuan. There is a big gap between the financial and insurance industry of more than 130,000, and the latter is 3.8 times that of the former.
The “education industry” in the industry category of the General Accounting Office does not include the salary statistics of teachers in public and private schools above primary school. According to Yang Zongbin, a human resources expert, it is commonly known as “supplementary education industry”, regardless of talent type, following-school tutoring, etc. The reduction of “internal use” in the catering industry is the same as the “miserable industry” in the first row of the epidemic tsunami; although the supplementary education industry has launched online courses, the effect is not as good as expected, and it is even worse for the supplementary education industry with a low total salary. .
Statistics from the General Accounting Office show that from January to May this year, the total wages of the wholesale and retail industry and the entertainment and leisure service industry showed a decline of 0.9% and 0.1%. Li Jianhong, a professor at the Department of Labor and Human Resources at Cultural University, analyzed that low-wage industries such as wholesale and retail, accommodation and catering have attracted a large number of employed people, which has led to Taiwan’s long-term inability to get rid of the haze of low-wage; According to the standard of less than two-thirds of the median salary, in the past five years, the proportion of low-wage labor in my country has dropped to 29.6%, accounting for nearly 40% of the total employees, which seems to have improved significantly, but it is worrying that 30% The proportion of low-paying youth groups still remains high, as high as 40%.
Li Jianhong said that the economic and trade environment has prompted the upgrading of the technology and financial industries, and companies have actively raised salaries to attract talents; however, in the face of the new crown epidemic, the domestic demand service industry expects no salary increases and bonuses, and manpower has plummeted, and even “salary cuts” have appeared. This will further widen the gap between high and low wages. Yang Zongbin said that the M-shaped salary expansion, more bluntly, is that the “rich and poor gap” is more serious; when the “rich and poor gap” meets “inflation”, for the financial industry with a monthly income of 130,000 yuan, an increase of 100 yuan a day for food expenses It doesn’t hurt, but for service workers with a monthly salary of only 35,000 yuan, the “pain index” continues to soar.
Li Jianhong pointed out that the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor is a common issue in the world. Taiwan’s only move is to raise the basic wage, which is far less than the supporting policies of other advanced countries.
