How to become a Social Work Professional

Official title: Social Work Professionals

Provides counselling and support to individuals, families and communities with social or personal problems to help them adapt and cope.

Main tasks

• Interview family or group members to assess their situation and problems and decide what services they need; compile case records or reports for courts and other legal proceedings
• Provide counselling, support and mediation, and help clients build the skills to deal with social and personal problems; keep in contact with clients' welfare, education and health providers and share information on their situation and progress
• Plan and carry out support for clients, including crisis intervention, financial, legal, housing, medical and other welfare services
• Investigate cases of abuse or neglect and take action to protect children and others at risk
• Counsel offenders to help them change their attitudes and behaviour and reintegrate into society, reducing the chance of reoffending

Ways in

• University department: Social Work & Community degrees, Offered by 74 universities in Taiwan
• Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a social worker you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 社會工作師 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 24.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Average pay: NT$649,000 a year
• Demand for Legal, social and cultural jobs is projected at about 190,000 in 2024 and about 216,000 in 2030. (+13.7%)
• 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 Social Work Professional?

Ways in include: Social Work & Community degrees.

How much does a Social Work Professional earn in Taiwan?

Average pay is NT$649,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Is a Social Work Professional a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.7% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Social Work Professional?

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