The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has published its Taxi Business Survey for 2025. Full-time drivers, whose main income comes from the taxi, averaged NT$32,465 a month after running costs, NT$5,508 more than in 2023, a rise of 20.4%. Before those costs, monthly takings averaged NT$55,788, up NT$7,022, or 14.4%. Taxi Business Survey
Full-time drivers were 81.1% of those in the survey and brought in 87.0% of operating income. The income and working figures that follow are for that group. Amounts are in New Taiwan dollars.
Monthly takings
Running costs averaged NT$23,323 a month, up NT$1,514, or 6.9%. The total covers fuel and charging, maintenance, insurance, management and service fees, and parking. Vehicle loans and rent are not included. Fuel and charging remained the largest cost and fell to under 60% of the bill. Management and service fees rose to about 20%. Platform fees are counted in that line for the first time in this survey.
Drivers on the road for at least eight hours a day averaged NT$62,822 before costs and NT$37,403 after them, NT$7,034 and NT$4,938 above the full-time averages. Drivers in a dispatch fleet averaged NT$58,492 before costs, NT$10,566 more than drivers outside a fleet. Average takings were highest in the northern region, at NT$57,708. The survey's north covers Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Keelung, Yilan and Hsinchu.
Booking and empty running
Full-time drivers took 4.8 days off a month. On a working day they carried 13.5 trips and drove 144.3 kilometres, the highest trip count and distance in the last three surveys. A working day lasted 9.0 hours, including 2.2 hours empty. Empty time was 24.4% of hours worked, and empty distance was 21.3% of kilometres driven. Both shares are the lowest in the survey series.
Dispatch fleets had 75.5% of full-time drivers, 7.4 percentage points more than in 2023. Asked how they found passengers, 78.5% named an online platform, including an app, or radio or satellite dispatch, up 6.0 points. Drivers could name more than one method. Street cruising was named by 40.3%, down from 51.7%, and this is the first time that share has been about 40%.
Multi-purpose taxis
Taiwan had 92,768 taxis at the end of 2025, up 1,114, or 1.2%, from 2023. Multi-purpose taxis, which take booked journeys through an internet platform, numbered 36,023. That was 9,172 more than in 2023, a rise of 34.2%, and close to 40% of the fleet. Wheelchair-accessible taxis numbered 1,321, or 1.4%. Taipei had 32,239 taxis and New Taipei 20,823, together 57.2% of the national total.
Full-time multi-purpose drivers took 5.1 rest days a month, a little more than full-time drivers as a whole. On days they worked they carried 14.4 trips and drove 155.0 kilometres, 0.9 trips and 10.7 kilometres more than the full-time average. Monthly takings were NT$59,528 and costs were NT$26,491, leaving NT$33,037, which is NT$572 above the net figure for all full-time drivers.
How the figures were collected
The ministry carries out the survey every two years. Between March and June 2026 it sampled 30,000 taxis that were working at the end of 2025, by stratified systematic sampling, and collected replies by post and online. Valid replies came back for 9,861 vehicles, a response rate of 32.9%. Some counties and cities had too few replies for the local detail to be treated as reliable.