Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.49
Liaison Jun-Ming Chen
Submission Date Oct. 29, 2021

STARS v2.2

National Tsing Hua University
IN-37: Student Living Wage

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Fu-Ren Lin
Professor
Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University
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The local living wage for one adult:
5.10 US/Canadian $

Percentage of student employees paid a living wage for one adult:
100

Information to support the living wage percentage reported above:
NTHU pays USD$ 5.6 per hour to students for work-study grants.

The United Kingdom published the National Living Wage in 2016, and 60% of the national median income is used to set the "living wage". According to data from the Taiwan government, in January 2021, the average recurring salary of all employees in Taiwan is USD$ 8.5 per hour, and the living wage is 8.5*60% = 5.1 per hour..

5.6>5.1.

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