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Fresh GP Doctors Make $10k

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Non-specialist doctors who join medical groups as general practitioners earn a starting pay of $10k/mth, with a 13th-month bonus thrown in. In other words, these salaried medical professionals make $130k/yr fresh out of training.
This is according to an article in yesterday’s Straits Times, which highlighted the trend of young doctors joining medical groups instead of [...]


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Top 25 Jobs In Banking & Finance

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Want to know which are the best-paying jobs in the highly lucrative Banking & Financial Services industry?
We have compiled a list of 25 high-earning jobs based on the MOM Report on Wages in Singapore 2009.
Unsurprisingly, jobs like forex dealer, commodities futures broker, sales manager and risk manager feature prominently in the list.
Here’s the list. The wage [...]


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Are You Earning More Than Median Pay?

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Managers in their late thirties earn a median gross salary of $6,328/mth.
Professionals in the same age group make $4,970/mth.
Are you above the median? (In other words, are you in the top 50% of your cohort?)
Or are you below the median?
Based on the MOM Report on Wages in Singapore 2009, these are the median gross monthly [...]

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Top 100 Jobs In Singapore 2010

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

This is the 2010 edition of our very popular list of 100 best-paying jobs in Singapore.
As with previous editions, this list is based on income data from the recently released MOM Report on Wages in Singapore 2009.
MOM uses actual CPF data, but only the base monthly wage data are published. This means bonuses and shared [...]

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Citizens A Minority In MNCs?

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

A friend of mine works in an MNC. He commented recently that Singapore citizens are a rare breed at his workplace. In his extended team of about 30, there are Indians, British, Asian Americans and Malaysian Chinese, but only 2 Singaporeans. And one of the 2 is a contract worker!
This is not only limited to [...]

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Civil Service Bonus mid-2010

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Civil servants are set to receive a bonus of half a month and a cash quantum of $300 in July.
This is considered good news, compared to just 6 months ago when public servants received a pittance as year end bonus. The Public Service Division explained that the Singapore economy, which grew by 15.5% in Q1, [...]

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Chinese Language Not Important

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Overheard 2 comments on radio.
The first is about some Singaporeans unable to speak either English or Chinese well. Despite years of studying both languages as “first languages”, many so-called “effectively bilingual” Singaporeans still struggle when communicating with native speakers of either language.
Mainlanders and Taiwanese laugh at our limited Chinese vocabulary, while the English-speaking foreigners mock [...]

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Civil Service Bonus 2009

Friday, November 27th, 2009

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 [...]

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Our Poll Results: 41% readers make 100k, mostly from MNCs

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

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 [...]

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Are GLCs Better Paymasters Than MNCs?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

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 [...]

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