According to a Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics survey of household incomes, meanwhile, people with advanced degrees earn more on average than people with only a bachelor's degree. In 1999, for example, people with master's degrees earned NT $ 1.03 million per year versus NT $ 790,000 for those with only a bachelor's degree.
此外，根據主計處的家庭收支調查，研究所以上學歷者，其所得超過一般大學生。