Minimum wage in other countries

Taiwan's minimum wage since October 1997 was US$487 per month. This works out to a daily minimum wage of US$16 or around US$2 per hour.

In 2005, it was proposed that the domestic minimum wage could be raised to 40 percent of the average wage of US$1,357 per month. This would give a revised minimum wage of US$543 and would benefit up to 2 million domestic workers as well as 160,000 foreign workers in the manufacturing sector.

The ratio of minumum wage to average wage was:
France - 66.4 percent
Canada - 39.4 percent
Taiwan - 36.3 percent
United States 32 percent.
South Korea - 27 percent