CTBC Tops List with Director Pay Over NT$100M Last Year; TSMC Shrinks 68%

(CNA Reporter Tseng Jen-kai, Taipei, 15th) The Taiwan Stock Exchange today disclosed the director remuneration of listed companies for 2025. CTBC Financial Holding's average remuneration per director last year exceeded NT$100 million, reaching NT$104.78 million, once again claiming the championship. TSMC's average remuneration per director was NT$15.73 million, ranking 19th, shrinking 68.9% compared to the year 113 (2024).

According to the announcement on the Market Observation Post System, CTBC's average remuneration per director last year was NT$104.78 million, making it the only listed company with an average director pay exceeding NT$100 million. Passive component giant Yageo came in second with an average of NT$75.49 million per director, and the newly merged Taishin Shin Kong Financial ranked third with NT$56.71 million.

Among the top 10 highest average director remunerations of listed companies last year, financial stocks accounted for 6. Besides CTBC and Taishin Shin Kong Financial, Yuanta Financial ranked 4th with NT$49.9 million, KGI Financial ranked 6th with NT$48.7 million [Note: Text implies another tie or error, listed as 6th], and Fubon Financial and Taichung Bank took the 6th and 7th spots with NT$36.94 million and NT$36.02 million, respectively.

Apart from Yageo in the electronics sector, thermal module maker AVC, which saw an earnings explosion last year, ranked 9th with an average director remuneration of NT$32.13 million [Note: Source says billion (億元), likely a typo for million (萬元)]; Largan Precision ranked 10th with NT$31.92 million. In traditional industries, only Hotai Motor made the list, ranking 8th with NT$33.59 million.

Worth noting is that Taiwan's 'sacred mountain' TSMC's average remuneration per director last year was NT$15.73 million, shrinking about 68.9% from NT$50.71 million in 2024, ranking only 19th. (Editor: Chang Chun-mao)