How to become a Child Care Worker
Official title: Child Care Workers
Child care workers care for children at home, before and after school, during holidays and in day care, and help teachers look after children in schools and kindergartens.
Main tasks
- Help children wash, dress and eat
- Take children to and from school or on outdoor activities
- Play with children, read to them and tell stories
- Observe and record children's activities
- Help prepare learning materials and operate audiovisual equipment, computers and other teaching aids
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: child care and youth services (0922); early childhood teacher education (0112). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 20, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 20, five-year junior college (五專) 11, two-year junior college (二專) 7. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Childcare. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 154 托育人員. Tested at a single level (單一級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$436,000 a year
- Demand for Health and care jobs is projected at about 774,000 in 2024 and about 876,000 in 2030. (+13.2%)
- 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 Child Care Worker?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Childcare.
How much does a Child Care Worker earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$436,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Child Care Worker a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Child Care 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