Amid the growing frenzy about artificial intelligence (AI) development, employers are willing to offer information software system professionals with AI knowhow an average monthly salary of NT$80,000 (US$2,579), the highest among the AI posts in Taiwan, online 104 Job Bank (104 人力銀行) said on Tuesday.
Citing its own data, 104 Job Bank said in a statement that positions requiring AI knowledge pay an average of NT$57,000 per month, 38 percent more than the NT$41,000 average for positions that do not require AI knowhow.
Information software system professionals positions have the highest average monthly salary at NT$80,000, the job bank said.
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In second place, jobseekers with AI knowledge are being offered an average monthly salary of NT$76,000 in the medical and healthcare industry, higher than the NT$66,000 that is offered to those in the management/human resources segment, which also requires AI knowhow, the job bank added.
In terms of wage increases owing to AI knowledge, the job bank said the financial industry is willing to offer jobseekers a NT$62,000 monthly wage on average, which is 60 percent higher than the industry average of NT$39,000.
The medical and healthcare industry saw a hike of 54 percent from the average monthly wage of NT$61,000, the job bank said.
An average of about 24,000 new jobs were created per month for jobseekers with AI knowledge in the fourth quarter of last year, up 29 percent from the same period of 2019, with software design, computing and firmware design engineers in the greatest demand, the job bank said.
The company also cited an online survey conducted from Nov. 6 to 20 which said that 58.4 percent of 1,565 polled employers were upbeat about AI development as the presence of popular applications such as ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, and Midjourney, a research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species, hit the market and started to impact industries.
Other than AI developments, 41.9 percent of respondents were optimistic about efforts in environmental and governance investment, which is expected to help enterprises strengthen corporate sustainability.
In addition, 32.2 percent of respondents thought demand for long-term care would increase, as Taiwan is an aging society, the job bank said.
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