How to become a Flight Attendant or Ship Steward
Official title: Flight Attendants and Ship Stewards
Flight attendants and ship stewards provide passenger services on aircraft and ships.
Main tasks
- Greet passengers boarding and show them to their seats
- Explain and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures
- Assemble and serve prepared food and drinks, and sell duty-free goods
- Attend to passengers, answer their questions and keep the cabin clean and tidy during the journey
- Guide and help passengers to evacuate following set procedures in an emergency landing
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: travel, tourism and leisure (1015); transport services (1041). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 42, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 11, five-year junior college (五專) 2, two-year junior college (二專) 4. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$880,000 a year
- Demand for Service and sales jobs is projected at about 2,220,000 in 2024 and about 2,287,000 in 2030. (+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 Flight Attendant or Ship Steward?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme.
How much does a Flight Attendant or Ship Steward earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$880,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Flight Attendant or Ship Steward a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Flight Attendant or Ship Steward?
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