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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The average expenditure of all Singapore households is $4,388 per month. This is according to the Household Expenditure Survey (HES) report released last month by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
Households staying in 5-room and executive HDB flats spend an average of $4,926 per month, while those in 3-rooms and 4-rooms spend $2,482 and $3,551 respectively.
Families [...]
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Does Your Monthly Household Expenditure Exceed $4,388?
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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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Our Poll Results: 41% readers make 100k, mostly from MNCs
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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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100 Best Jobs in Singapore (2009)
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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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Our Poll Results: 64% Singaporeans “Hit” by Recession
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
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 [...]
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Telemarketer Makes 20k
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
With rising GDP and record housing prices, and talk of “dual economy“, this recession seems not so much of a recession at all.
Unless you have lost your job.
A BBC poll says two-thirds of the people in UK are “hit” by the downturn. What they mean is that about 67% of the people know someone who [...]
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Know Anyone Retrenched?
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
There are salary surveys that you can use to assess whether what you’re getting is competitive.
Bear in mind that some of these salary reports give figures that are perceived to be on the high side.
For example, more than 50% of readers here voted that the figures in Hays Salary Survey and Guide 2009 are too [...]
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Salary Survey
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
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 [...]
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Launch of Salary.sg Forums
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
About half of fresh graduates polled here are unemployed. If you are a male fresh graduate affected by the recession, you should consider joining the Singapore Armed Forces.
As reported in ST today, a lieutenant-colonel retiring at age 45 (the current retirement age) will get about $700,000 in gratuity. Such lump sum payments make it attractive [...]
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Jobless Graduates Should Consider SAF
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
The mainstream media is apparently telling us that business degrees are no longer in demand. We are told a law degree can command a salary as high as $8,500 while arts and science courses are getting popular now.
On the front page of yesterday’s Business Times printed edition:
“Trainee lawyer bags $8,500 monthly pay
Foreign law firm pays [...]
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Business Degrees Not In Demand Anymore
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