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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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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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Risk Manager Earns $300k

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

According to this Bloomberg news article, a Singapore-based senior risk manager with a foreign bank earns between $300k and $400k annually.
“Aldabe’s agreed annual salary was $220,000, an additional target bonus of $170,000 and $30,000 in restricted shares. On Nov. 6, 2008, Standard Chartered informed Aldabe that his annual wage was S$323,400, based on an exchange [...]

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Graduate Employment Survey 2009 (published 2010)

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

The latest graduate employment survey reports are out.
The 2009 batch of graduates from NUS, NTU and SMU were asked about their starting pay and whether they were employed on a permanent basis.
The highest starting salaries come from the 4-year Information Systems Management programme at Singapore Management University. Those who graduated from this course with at [...]

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44 Percent of Workforce Are Non-Citizens (our estimate)

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The next time you hear the word “locals”, tell yourself it actually means “PRs and citizens”.
Similarly, “foreigners” means “foreigners who are non-PRs”.
Locals aren’t all Singapore citizens, and foreigners don’t include PRs. Confusing?
In yet another good example of the locals-foreigners confusion, the Manpower Ministry has proclaimed in its Labour Market 2009 report that “there were 1,053,500 [...]

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Does Your Monthly Household Expenditure Exceed $4,388?

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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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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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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