How to become a Baker, Pastry-cook or Confectionery Maker

Official title: Bakers, Pastry-cooks and Confectionery Makers

Bakers, pastry cooks and confectionery makers make bread, cakes and other flour products, and handmade chocolate and confectionery.

Main tasks

• Make bread, cakes, biscuits, pastries and other flour products
• Mix sugar, chocolate and other ingredients using hand tools and machines to make pastries and confectionery
• Monitor oven temperatures and product appearance to decide baking times
• Shape, bake, unload and cool bread, pastries and cakes

Ways in

• Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: food science (0721); hospitality and catering (1013). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 64, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 14, five-year junior college (五專) 17, two-year junior college (二專) 7. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Baking. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 077 烘焙食品. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.; Technician certificate: Chinese wheat food processing. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 096 中式麵食加工. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Average pay: NT$462,000 a year
• Demand for Craft and related trades jobs is projected at about 1,519,000 in 2024 and about 1,515,000 in 2030. (-0.3%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Other Food Processing and Related Trades Workers
• Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers
• Dairy-Products Makers
• Fruit, Vegetable and Related Preservers
• Food and Beverage Tasters and Graders

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Baker, Pastry-cook or Confectionery Maker?

Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Baking.

How much does a Baker, Pastry-cook or Confectionery Maker earn in Taiwan?

Average pay is NT$462,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Is a Baker, Pastry-cook or Confectionery Maker a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change -0.3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Baker, Pastry-cook or Confectionery Maker?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026