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Professionals and Managers – Is Your Pay above the Median?

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

If you’re a working professional in your late thirties, the median gross salary in your age group is $5,048/mth.
Managers in the same age group make a median pay of $6,500.
This is according to the Ministry of Manpower’s Report on Wages 2008 (released middle of this year).
Here are the stats for the various age groups:

 25-29 age [...]


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Top Primary Schools 2009

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

The following is the Salary.sg list of top primary schools for this year.
Ranking is done based on the vacancies available after the all-important Phase 2B. Refer to last year’s ranking for details.
The 6 schools in boldface offer the Gifted Education Programme (GEP). The other 3 GEP schools not in this top-20 list are: Tao Nan [...]


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Again, President’s Scholars Not Doing Engineering or Science

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Congratulations to the latest batch of President’s Scholars. But like last year’s batch, not a single one of them will be doing a science or engineering related course.
In a way, this confirms the doom of science and technology careers in Singapore.
In fact, four of the six President’s Scholars this year will read Economics.
Although Economics is [...]

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Millionaire Forummer Shares Experience and Gives Valuable Advice

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Frank sharing and valuable insights from a guest (thanks!) in our Salary.sg Forums, in response to a list of questions I posed in an old article on how to get rich:
- How did you make your first million?
“Made my first million i think around 30 or 31 years old. Graduated from uni in 1999, started [...]

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100 Best Jobs in Singapore (2009)

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

I have two lists this year – one for the top jobs across all industries and a separate one specifically for the financial services industry, just to show how skewed the numbers are.
This is the 2009 edition of my annual list(s) of the best 100 jobs in terms of pay (see last year’s edition).
The lists [...]

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Our Poll Results: 64% Singaporeans “Hit” by Recession

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

In an online poll conducted here, 64% of participants indicated they know someone who’s lost a job.

Close to 500 readers participated in the survey.
Conducted over half a month, this poll is done in the same spirit as a BBC Poll we discussed previously.
And our poll results are very similar to the UK one.
Since BBC is [...]

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