How to become a Cabinet-maker or Related Worker
Official title: Cabinet-makers and Related Workers
Cabinetmakers and related workers make, decorate and repair wooden furniture, carts and other vehicles, wheels, parts, fittings, patterns, pipes, clogs and wooden sports equipment using hand tools and woodworking machines.
Main tasks
- Make and repair wooden articles such as cabinets and other furniture using woodworking machines and hand tools
- Operate woodworking machines such as power saws, jointers, mortisers and shapers, and use hand tools to cut, shape and assemble parts
- Make, modify and repair wooden items such as cabinets, furniture, vehicle parts, scale models, sports equipment and other parts or products
- Inlay wood, apply veneer and carve designs to decorate furniture and fittings
- Finish the surfaces of wooden articles or furniture
Ways in
- Technical college: Technician certificate: Furniture making. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 012 家具木工. 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$414,000 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.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Cabinet-maker or Related Worker?
Ways in include: Technician certificate: Furniture making.
How much does a Cabinet-maker or Related Worker earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$414,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Cabinet-maker or Related Worker 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 Cabinet-maker or Related Worker?
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