Equal Pay Day reached one day earlier this year: MOL Staff Writer, with CNA The Ministry of Labor (MOL) has set Feb. 20 as this year’s Equal Pay Day, one day earlier than last year, based on estimates that Taiwanese women needed to work that far into this year to earn the same amount as men did last year. The decision was based on the calculation that women had to work 51 more days on average than men to earn the same income, because their salaries were 14 percent lower on average than those of men last year. The average hourly salary for female employees last year was NT$296, compared with NT$344 for men, the ministry said.