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TSMC Headquarters & offices · Hsinchu, Taiwan
TSMC · Hsinchu, Taiwan
A research center with a 47-metre-high atrium, a 24-hour wellness center in every fab and four kindergartens open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Hsinchu Science Park headquarters, the benefits and why so few people leave — then the pay and the business. Every number from TSMC's own reports, filings and press releases.
- 33,507people working in Hsinchu Science Park, end of 2025
- 300,000 m²floor space of the Global R&D Center (2023)
- 528places in TSMC's four kindergartens
- 2.9%employee turnover, 2025
Sources: Form 20-F 2025 · TSMC Annual Report 2025 · TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report · TSMC press release, July 28, 2023
Companies / Taiwan / Semiconductors / TSMC
THE HEADQUARTERS · HSINCHU SCIENCE PARK
A headquarters that shares its site with a fab — and a research center built like an ark
TSMC's head office sits beside Fab 12A at No. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6, in the science park where the company was founded in 1987. Every fab has a cafeteria, juice bar, coffee shop, bakery, 7-Eleven and bookstore, a 24-hour wellness center with physicians, nurses and psychologists, and a gym; the TSMC Sports Center adds a 25-metre heated pool and a sauna. A few kilometres away, the Global R&D Center by KRIS YAO | ARTECH puts its offices around a 160-metre-long atrium crossed by sky bridges, with a water feature, timber panels and natural light from above.
- HQ and Fab 12A share one address
- 24-hour wellness center in every fab
- Food court, coffee shop, bakery and 7-Eleven in each fab
- 25 m heated pool at the Sports Center
- R&D Center atrium: 160 × 40 × 47 m
- Design: KRIS YAO | ARTECH
Hsinchu Science Park
Facts: TSMC Annual Report 2025 (contact list, 5.6 Human Capital) · tsmc.com careers “Working Environment” · KRIS YAO | ARTECH project page “TSMC Global R&D Center”. Photos are added later and credited on each photo.
Hsinchu Science Park: headquarters, fabs and the Global R&D Center
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Corporate Headquarters & Fab 12A | 8, Li-Hsin Rd. 6, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 300-096, Taiwan |
| Global R&D Center | 168, Kehuan Rd., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 308-001, Taiwan |
| Fab 2 & Fab 5 | 121, Park Ave. 3, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 300-096, Taiwan |
| Fab 12B | 168, Park Ave. 2, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 300-091, Taiwan |
| Fab 20 (2nm) | 1, Kehuan Rd., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 308-001, Taiwan |
| TSMC Museum of Innovation | No. 1, Li Hsin Rd. 7, Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan |
Source: TSMC Annual Report 2025, Contact Information · tsmcmoi.com (museum) · See them on the map ↓
Source: TSMC press release “TSMC Inaugurates Global R&D Center” (July 28, 2023) · KRIS YAO | ARTECH project page · Form 20-F 2025 (Item 4 property; exhibit list) · sq ft conversions by eciffo
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Benefits (Taiwan)
TSMC adds 15% to what employees invest in its shares; more than 85% of employees worldwide take part.
Points every year for each full-time employee (about US$250 outside Taiwan) for health, family care, wellness and volunteering.
12 national holidays plus seven extra memorial days a year.
In Hsinchu, Taichung and Tainan, open 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for children aged two to six.
16 weeks for a second birth and 20 for a third, plus a childbirth subsidy of up to NT$20,000.
120 hours fully paid and 120 hours half-paid each year — more than the law requires.
New employees earn a day of annual leave for every two months worked before their first anniversary.
One paid day a year for volunteering.
Source: TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report, “An Admired Employer” (benefits table, kindergartens, compensation) · TSMC Annual Report 2025, 5.6.7 Employee Benefits. In China, North America and Europe TSMC gives more vacation days than local law requires.
Why so few people leave: what TSMC itself reports
Down from 3.5% in 2024. Among people in their first year, turnover was 5.7%.
In the 2025 engagement survey (76,279 employees asked, 88% answered), 84% called their overall compensation reasonable.
10,079 in-person courses and 40,410 online resources in 2025 — over 8.18 million training hours.
Share of employees in Taiwan who returned from parental leave in 2024 and were still at TSMC a year later; 88.4% came back on time in 2025.
At the end of 2025, with an average age of 36.3.
Women@tsmc, Global Family@tsmc, Accessibility@tsmc, Veterans@tsmc (U.S.) and Pride@tsmc, launched at the headquarters in 2025.
Source: TSMC Annual Report 2025, 5.6 Human Capital · TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report, “An Admired Employer”
Who works here
hold a master's degree or PhD
work in Hsinchu Science Park (33,507)
people hired worldwide in 2025
employees in North America
Source: Form 20-F 2025, Item 6.D Employees (Dec 31, 2025) · TSMC Annual Report 2025, 5.6.3 Workforce Structure (percentages of the jobs bar and Hsinchu share calculated by eciffo)
Pay at TSMC
The average for the same 74,988 people was NT$4,072,000, up NT$681,000 on 2024 (median up NT$517,000). Includes base pay, allowances, cash bonuses and profit sharing; managers are excluded. Newly hired master's-level engineers averaged more than NT$2 million in 2025.
Source: TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report, “Average and Median Salaries” (disclosed under Taiwan Stock Exchange rules)
TSMC does not report pay by age. The Taiwan Stock Exchange figures above, for all full-time non-managerial staff, are the closest official numbers.
Office history: 39 years inside Hsinchu Science Park
- 1987 Founded in a leased fab
Dr. Morris Chang founded TSMC as a joint venture of the Taiwan government and private investors; it was incorporated on February 21, 1987. Its first factory, Fab 1, was a 6-inch fab leased from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and ITRI.
Source: Form 20-F 2025, Item 4 · TSMC Annual Report 2016, “30 Years of TSMC” · tsmc.com About TSMC
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1990 Fab 2 on Park Avenue 3
Fab 2 Module A began production in 1990 and Module B in 1992, at No. 121, Park Avenue 3 in the science park — the site later shared with Fab 5.
Source: TSMC Annual Report 2016, “30 Years of TSMC” · TSMC Annual Report 2025, Contact Information
Hsinchu fabs, 2000 · Tseng Cheng-hsun / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2001 Head office at No. 121, Park Avenue 3
In a contract dated March 30, 2001 and filed with the SEC, TSMC gave its principal place of business as No. 121, Park Avenue 3 — the Fab 2 and Fab 5 site. The same year, Fab 12, the world's first full-scale 12-inch fab, began production on Li-Hsin Road 6.
Source: Exhibit 10.33 to an SEC filing by LSI Logic (2003) · TSMC Annual Report 2016, “30 Years of TSMC”
Fab 5, 2010 · Peellden / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2006 No. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6 — beside Fab 12
By July 2006 TSMC's filings gave its address as No. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6, the Fab 12 site. It is still the headquarters: the land is leased from the science park under one agreement for “Fab 12 and Corporate Headquarters”.
Source: TSMC Form 6-K, July 28, 2006 · Form 20-F 2025 (principal office; land lease exhibits)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023 The Global R&D Center
A 300,000 m² research building by KRIS YAO | ARTECH opened in the science park on July 28, 2023, as the new home of TSMC's R&D organization — more than 7,000 people working on 2nm and beyond.
Source: TSMC press release, July 28, 2023 · KRIS YAO | ARTECH project page
Global R&D Center · Tseng Cheng-hsun / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2024–25 Fabs abroad: Arizona, Kumamoto, Dresden
TSMC Arizona's first fab began volume production in late 2024 and a third fab was started in 2025; JASM's first fab in Kumamoto began production at the end of 2024; construction of a fab in Dresden began in 2024. The headquarters stayed in Hsinchu.
Source: TSMC Annual Report 2025, About TSMC and Letter to Shareholders
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Today Headquarters and nine fabs in one park
The corporate headquarters and nine fabs in Hsinchu Science Park sit on about 1,440,012 m² of land, and 33,507 of TSMC's 90,557 employees worked in the park at the end of 2025.
Source: Form 20-F 2025, Item 4 (property) and Item 6.D (employees)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
TSMC has never left Hsinchu Science Park. Its head office moved a short distance inside the park, from the Fab 2 site on Park Avenue 3 to the Fab 12 site on Li-Hsin Road 6.
- 1 · 1990–2001No. 121, Park Avenue 3 — Fab 2 (1990) and the head office named in a 2001 contract
- 2 · 2023Global R&D Center, 168 Kehuan Road — New home of TSMC R&D, by KRIS YAO | ARTECH
- 3 · TodayNo. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6 — Corporate headquarters and Fab 12A
Addresses: TSMC Annual Report 2025 (Contact Information) · Form 20-F 2025 · SEC filings of 2001 and 2006. Coordinates approximate, taken from the street addresses.
What TSMC does
TSMC invented the “pure-play foundry”: it manufactures chips that its customers design and never sells chips under its own name. In 2025 it made 12,682 different products with 305 process technologies for 534 customers.
One business: wafer manufacturing (about 86% of revenue in 2025) plus advanced packaging, testing, mask making and design services.
Where the money came from · Revenue by platform, 2025 (NT$)
Source: Form 20-F 2025, Item 4 (net revenue by platform; “Others” NT$79.6B not shown)
Source: TSMC Annual Report 2025 (Letter to Shareholders, About TSMC) · Form 20-F 2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
NT$1.03T → NT$3.81T
48,752 → 90,557
Calendar years, consolidated net revenue in trillion New Taiwan dollars; full-time employees at December 31. Source: Form 20-F 2020, 2022 and 2025 (Item 4 net revenue by geography; Item 6.D employees). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chief Executive Officer since June 2018 and also Chairman since June 4, 2024. Co-CEO with Mark Liu from 2013.
Founder and Chairman. The board re-appointed him CEO in 2009; he retired after the shareholders' meeting in June 2018.
Founder: Dr. Morris Chang (1987).
Source: TSMC press release, Oct 2, 2017 (retirement and dual leadership) · TSMC Annual Report 2016, “30 Years of TSMC” · TSMC Annual Report 2025, Board Members
TSMC: questions people ask
Where is TSMC's headquarters?
At No. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan — the same site as Fab 12A. TSMC has been in the science park since it was founded in 1987.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · TSMC Annual Report 2025, Contact Information
Who designed TSMC's Global R&D Center?
KRIS YAO | ARTECH. Designed in 2019 and completed in 2023, it has 300,000 m² of floor space, room for up to 8,000 engineers and an atrium 160 m long, 40 m wide and 47 m high, and is certified LEED Gold.
Source: KRIS YAO | ARTECH project page · TSMC press release, July 28, 2023
How big is TSMC's Hsinchu campus?
The corporate headquarters and nine fabs in Hsinchu Science Park occupy about 1,440,012 m² of land (about 15.5 million sq ft). 33,507 employees worked in the park at the end of 2025.
Source: Form 20-F 2025
Can you visit TSMC?
The fabs are not open to the public, but the TSMC Museum of Innovation at No. 1, Li Hsin Road 7 in Hsinchu Science Park is. It opens Monday to Saturday, 9:00–12:00 and 13:00–17:00; every visit must be booked in advance, and visitors must be at least 7.
Source: tsmcmoi.com, Visit Information
How many people work at TSMC?
90,557 full-time employees at the end of 2025, 67.0% men and 33.0% women. 53.4% hold a master's degree or PhD.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · TSMC Annual Report 2025
How much do TSMC employees earn?
In 2025 the 74,988 full-time non-managerial employees in Taiwan earned NT$4,072,000 on average and NT$3,162,000 at the median, including bonuses and profit sharing. Pay is a monthly salary, quarterly performance bonuses and annual profit sharing.
Source: TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report · TSMC Annual Report 2025, 5.6.6
What benefits does TSMC offer?
In Taiwan: a 15% subsidy on employee share purchases, NT$8,000 a year in flexible benefit points, 12 national holidays plus seven memorial days, four onsite kindergartens, a 24-hour wellness center in every fab, 120 hours of fully paid sick leave and one paid volunteer day.
Source: TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report · TSMC Annual Report 2025
Can TSMC employees work from home?
TSMC does not publish a remote-work policy. What it does publish is a staggered schedule: indirect staff on day shifts in Taiwan can start at 7:30, 8:30 or 9:30.
Source: TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report, benefits table
What is TSMC's employee turnover rate?
2.9% in 2025, down from 3.5% in 2024; 5.7% among people in their first year.
Source: TSMC Annual Report 2025 · TSMC 2025 Sustainability Report
Who founded TSMC and who runs it now?
Dr. Morris Chang founded TSMC in 1987 and retired in June 2018. C.C. Wei has been CEO since 2018 and Chairman as well since June 4, 2024.
Source: TSMC press release, Oct 2, 2017 · TSMC Annual Report 2025
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