How to become a Life Science Technician
Official title: Life Science Technicians
Provides technical support to life science professionals in researching, analysing and experimenting on living things, and in developing and applying knowledge in agriculture, natural resource management, environmental protection, biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, and cell and molecular biology, including related products and processes.
Main tasks
- Help design, set up and run experiments; set up, calibrate, operate and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment; collect and prepare specimens, samples, chemical reagents, slides and cultures
- Monitor experiments to make sure correct laboratory quality control procedures and health and safety guidelines are followed; observe experimental data and analyse, calculate, record and report results using scientific methods
- Preserve, classify and record specimens and samples; use computers to develop models and analyse data
- Carry out work using complex and high-powered equipment; take part in research, development and manufacture of products and processes
- Order and store laboratory supplies; maintain related databases
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: biochemistry and related sciences (0512); biology (0511). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 9, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 3, two-year junior college (二專) 1. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$578,000 a year
- Demand for Science and engineering jobs is projected at about 952,000 in 2024 and about 1,072,000 in 2030. (+12.6%)
- Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Life Science Technician?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme.
How much does a Life Science Technician earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$578,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Life Science Technician a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 12.6% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Life Science Technician?
Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, 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