An hourly wage of 150 (Nantou) seems pretty good.

The hourly wage of 150 is only something you can see but not actually get.

The actual hourly wage works out to around 130.

The actual workday was 9 hours with no break (before October).

(After October, they gave us back that 1-hour break.)

The actual pay was for 8 hours, plus a mandatory 1,000 meal deduction (deducted whether you ate or not) + no overtime pay for working Saturdays and Sundays (the pay was still 1,200) + under the payroll calculation method, 0.5 hours of statutory working time was deducted for every 4 hours worked (including overtime) + staying half an hour after work for meetings came with no overtime pay; instead, another half-hour of statutory working time was deducted + a welfare fund deduction.

Payday was the 10th, postponed when it fell on a holiday, sometimes by several days (for bank transfers).

For cash payments, the salary was paid whenever the company had time (usually around the 20th).

The payroll was calculated by the minute, and errors often resulted in excessive deductions. You had to photograph your time clock records and calculate the amount yourself.

The more overtime you worked, the more statutory working time was deducted.

Sick leave was unpaid.

Benefits: employee gatherings... The Mid-Autumn Festival gift was one box of Kobayashi rice crackers (no cash gift).