How to become a Jewellery and Precious-metal Worker
Official title: Jewellery and Precious-metal Workers
Jewellery and precious metal workers make, adjust and repair jewellery and precious metal ornaments, including cutting and setting gems, engraving designs on precious metal articles, and cutting and polishing industrial diamonds.
Main tasks
- Make jewellery and other precious metal articles by hand
- Repair, reshape and restyle jewellery or precious metal articles according to designs or instructions
- Make jewellery such as rings, necklaces, bangles, brooches and bracelets from gold, silver, platinum, precious or semi-precious stones
- Engrave or emboss lettering, designs or decorative lines on jewellery and precious metal articles
- Cut, polish and set gemstones
- Examine the surface and internal structure of gems using polariscopes, refractometers, microscopes and other optical instruments to identify cracks, flaws or factors affecting value
Ways in
- Technical college: Technician certificate: Jewellery making. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 146 金銀珠寶飾品加工. 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$572,000 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 Jewellery and Precious-metal Worker?
Ways in include: Technician certificate: Jewellery making.
How much does a Jewellery and Precious-metal Worker earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$572,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Jewellery and Precious-metal 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 Jewellery and Precious-metal 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