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> That top talent collects very good salaries. Semiconductor engineers salaries in Taiwan could've been as low as $26k-$28k USD back in 2007-2009. Multi-year l
by baybal2 5y ago
> That top talent collects very good salaries.
Semiconductor engineers salaries in Taiwan could've been as low as $26k-$28k USD back in 2007-2009. Multi-year long PhD "interships" can be unpaid, or completely minimally so.
A chance for an average semi process engineer graduate to survive to doing real RnD was close to 80-100 to 1.
- inglor_cz 5y agoI wonder what the situation looks like today. Probably better, because losing senior engineers in a situation when the field has shrunk to Samsung, TSMC and Intel, would be a huge pain.
- baybal2 5y agoTSMC's salaries have doubled, but that only means that an engineer with 5-7 years experience gets $43k-$58k. The rest of the industry is still around $34k-$45k That lags behind the wage growth in the rest of Taiwan.
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- headmelted 5y agoNot challenging this but do you have a link? If that’s the case that’s really surprising given how significant TSMC is to Taiwan politically.
- baybal2 5y agoFor 12-10 year old ones, my own contacts. For what's recent more from local chit chat.
- logicchains 5y agoThe mainland is taking advantage of this to get skilled engineers, as mainland Chinese tech salaries are closer to those in the US. So much so that Taiwan has banned recruiting for mainland jobs: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Taiwan-bans-recruitment-for-jobs-in-China-to-combat-brain-drain https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Taiwan-...