How to become a Shop Salesperson
Official title: Shop Salespersons
Shop sales workers sell goods and explain after-sales service directly to businesses, organisations and the public in wholesale and retail shops. Workers who supervise shop sales staff, or who run a retail shop while also selling, are also included.
Main tasks
- Recommend suitable goods and prices to meet customer needs, and explain each product's uses, operation and warranty period
- Order stock for sale and carry out stocktakes
- Display, sell and wrap goods, and take payment
- Supervise and coordinate sales staff, cashiers and other workers in wholesale and retail outlets such as convenience stores, hypermarkets and department stores
Ways in
- Technical college: Technician certificate: Retail store service. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 181 門市服務. 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$529,000 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 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 Shop Salesperson?
Ways in include: Technician certificate: Retail store service.
How much does a Shop Salesperson earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$529,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Shop Salesperson 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 Shop Salesperson?
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