Comments on: Salaries of Professors

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:35:30 +0000

I believe associate directors in SMU are fairly senior, looking at their hierarchy. It is a step below Director, which is the head of department. Associate directors in NUS, on the other hand, appear to be just above senior manager. They also have senior associate director, and deputy director above that.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:28:43 +0000

I tend to agree that the administration side of uni doesn’t pay well for the junior officers. Progression is slow. Someone posted on the forum that his peers in the civil service are doing better than him. I think civil service pays better than uni administration.

By: Dun think so

Dun think so — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:08:22 +0000

I think the administrative side of uni doesn’t pay well, at least for junior admin officers with degrees (less than 3k?)

Had a friend working there

By: Mikk

Mikk — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:01:28 +0000

And are similar numbers available for the administrative side of universities in Singapore. What do managers, senior managers, associate directors make? In NUS, SMU?

Thanks if anyone knows and is able to share.

By: ys

ys — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:52:28 +0000

I assume the figures are for NUS and NTU? I heard that SMU pays much higher. Anyone has the figures for SMU? And what about the new 4th university?

By: Depends

Depends — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:31:30 +0000

I think it also depends largely on the field/faculty of the professor.

For finance professors, naturally they will earn more, as they are benchmarked against their opportunity cost in the private sector.

But if for eg. you are a Geography or Social work professor, probably don’t earn as much. Just my guess.

By: sg

sg — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:50:49 +0000

It is from HR related personnel. In fact, they told me that is the latest scale.

By: ys

ys — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:42:42 +0000

In general, Singapore’s universities’ faculty members are one of the best paid in the world, behind HK but on par with the top Uni in US.

sg: where did you get those figures?

By: sg

sg — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:16:31 +0000

Latest info. from sg- include the performance bonus and 13th month.

Professor S$208,450 – S$320,455
Associate Professor S$138,625 – S$234,567
Assistant Professor S$89,530 – S$131,642

By: x

Tue, 25 May 2010 04:31:43 +0000

NONSENSE!!!

NUS assistant professors earn 72,000
associate professors 90,000
full professors start at 168,000, but the university is going to lower this.

NUS salaries are far below what people earn in the US, which is why nobody wants to go there!