How to become an Occupational Therapist

Official title: Occupational Therapists

Draws up occupational therapy programmes that help people develop, improve, maintain or regain the ability to look after themselves in daily life and live more independently.

Main tasks

• Draw up and evaluate the content and goals of occupational therapy
• Design therapeutic activities that help people prevent or correct physical and mental impairments, improve function and adapt to daily life
• Train and instruct people in the use of functional aids

Ways in

• University department: Allied Health degrees, Offered by 44 universities in Taiwan
• Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a occupational therapist you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 職能治療師 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 25.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Average pay: NT$657,000 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 an Occupational Therapist?

Ways in include: Allied Health degrees.

How much does an Occupational Therapist earn in Taiwan?

Average pay is NT$657,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Is an Occupational Therapist 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 an Occupational Therapist?

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