Comments on: Degree holder – is your Income above the Median?

By: Papaya

Papaya — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:51:44 +0000

Haha… how would you define it then? What about people earning more than 200k a MONTH? Obscene? HAHAHAHA.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:45:17 +0000

“Let’s define “decent” as being at least slightly more than 50% of your cohort, or what’s called the median.”

By this definition of “decent” income, half of the people will be getting less than a “decent” income. Say the “under-earners” felt shortchanged and hopped to a job with more decent salary; they are then in a “decent” salary range but in doing so they will shift the median up. When this game continues the median salary will just keep going up and no matter how things change, half of us are going to be depressed.

I would appeal for a better definition of “decent” income.

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By: James

James — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:11:37 +0000

So where’s the benchmark for 2010?

By: james

james — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:30:30 +0000

define “good job”.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:05:26 +0000

Hey, are these number true?

Most of my friends between 25-29 would be very happy if they could get S$3,000 per month.

I told my friend who have a good job abt the numbers presented in a career book, and the person said that the numbers are “rosy”. I wish he were wrong, but apparently he was right.

By: goodmoney

goodmoney — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:43:19 +0000

hey 4k for 27 is good money already

By: ALEX

ALEX — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:57:18 +0000

It must depends on their professional and markets.
Like me, work in SENTOSA project, and become a interpreter for Japanese, English, Mandarine, Cantonese and Malay is just only earned sgd4000 permonth. And my age now is 27.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:55:43 +0000

Hmm, based on the figures IN 2007, well of course its a rosy picture to know. I would personally give at least a 10% to 15% discount to the pays stated because its not the figure you would get now in 2008/09… owing to the cuts, retrenchment etc. Pay cuts are quite the norm now if u ask me.

By: monami

monami — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:35:32 +0000

well thats quite a rosy figure be grateful when as long as you can put food on table and live life debt free