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This year, civil servants will get the usual AWS and a one-off payment of 0.25 month capped at $750.
This means that a civil servant earning a monthly salary of $3k will get 1.25 months of bonus worth $3,750, whereas another civil servant earning $10k a month will only get 1.075 months or $10,750.
Whose bonus would [...]

About 41% of Salary.sg readers make more than $100k per annum. This is according to our poll which garnered more than 800 responses.
Out of this group of high earners, about two-thirds work in multinationals (or MNCs).
As for those who work in government-linked companies (GLCs), slightly more than one-third make more than $100k. Contrast this with [...]

While some doctors and administrators are having a friendly debate, I would like to bring your attention to another interesting discussion.
A reader by the name “wonder” claims that his friends in GLCs earn double of what MNC employees earn.
I’m a little sceptical, so let’s do an unscientific poll.
Let’s compare the ratio of high earners in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Flip to page 8 of Sunday Times and read about an ex-telemarketer making $20,000 every month working for Citibank and DBS:
“From 2000 to 2003, he was a telemarketer for Citibank and DBS Bank and earned a monthly salary of $20,000. He thought nothing of splurging on high-end labels like Louis Vuitton…”  
I’m not sure if telemarketers [...]

It’s been a while since the term life sciences last appeared in the mainstream media. Most recently, it appeared somewhat in the form of “green chemistry” in this CNA report talking about GlaxoSmithKline opening a facility in Singapore and sponsoring some scholarships.
The scholarships are for studies in green chemistry and public health policy.
Green chemistry? Shouldn’t [...]

We have launched Salary.sg Forums.
Now you can discuss salary, job, career and investment matters in a user-friendly forum format.
Powered by vBulletin – which is the most popular forum engine among top discussion forums worldwide – you can now view well organized threads of discussions and reply directly to a particular thread or post that is [...]

Former one-hit-wonder Stella Ng has recently been declared bankrupt by the Singapore court. She’s a mandopop singer before her foray into the chocolate cake business.
Back in 2007, Zaobao reported that her cake business in Taiwan was raking in S$500,000 a month in sales. She had obtained the franchise rights from Awfully Chocolate in Singapore and [...]