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Higher starting salaries for MINDEF and SAF entrants

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

MINDEF has announced that fresh entrants into MINDEF and SAF will get a higher starting pay.
In its press release, I noted that accountant entrants with good honours degrees get the highest increase (16.1%), followed by management executives with good honours (15.8%). Management executives and accountants are part of MINDEF’s non-uniformed officer scheme, or what they [...]

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Bank executives work long hours

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

According to a survey by eFinancialCareers.sg, the well known “financial job marketplace” portal, Singapore bank executives work the longest number of hours.
As reported in the Straits Times, 44% of our bankers work more than 55 hours a week, with Hong Kong and UK not too far behind at 43% and 41% respectively.
The global average is [...]

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Charity sector pay

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Mr Willie Cheng argued in the Straits Times today that salaries in charity organisations are already governed by market forces.
“No one is compelled to do non-profit work. People choose to work in charities at wage levels that they know of upfront and thus fully accept.”
But I do not quite understand his point on the fact [...]

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Best-paying jobs in the US

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Forbes.com published a list of most well-paid jobs in America. It’s a little similar to the top jobs in Singapore, except that the medical professions feature more strongly in the US list. The salary difference between the No. 1 and No. 25 is also narrower (I’m not sure if it’s fair to compare this way [...]

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Cost of living is top concern

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

The results of a survey conducted by SPH Research show that Singaporeans are most worried about cost of living and least worried about the need to travel abroad for work.
The following is the list of top concerns, ranked by importance (figure in brackets is the percentage of respondents who indicated they are worried about [...]

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IT Salary Benchmarks

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

As we brace ourselves for an IT job boom, here’s a ZDNet Asia report on IT employment trends in the region.
According to the report, the top 5 skills in demand are:

Project management
Business analysis
Microsoft .NET
J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition)
General programming skill

Not surprisingly, the top industry is Legal & Finance, with an average annual salary of about $76,000 [...]

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IT jobs

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

The ST Digital Life reports that a whopping 55,000 IT jobs are up for grabs from now till 2015.
This is the projection of Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), which is currently seeking public consultation on its IT manpower development strategies as part of its iNtelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) masterplan. IDA also maintains a talent development portal.
If [...]

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Higher starting pay for civil servants

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

The Public Service Division has announced hikes in the monthly starting salaries of fresh graduates employed under its civil service schemes. The announcement is made in a press released dated yesterday and reported in the media today.
I took a look at the press release.
The biggest increase is found in the engineering profession scheme – $620. [...]

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NTU graduates starting pay

Friday, May 18th, 2007

NTU has finally released the results of its graduate employment survey.
The average fresh NTU graduate makes $2,700 a month. Channelnewsasia.com says this is higher than both NUS and SMU, but I recall that SMU’s figure is $2,850. See post on SMU graduates starting pay.
As for students who studied under the NTU Global Immersion Programme, their [...]

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Options for poorer non-elite students

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Children from rich background have it easy. Many doctors come from rich families. Rich kids go to elite schools. If they work sufficiently hard, they can almost guarantee themselves a good life – get good high-paying jobs, inherit parents’ fortune, and the “virtuous” cycle repeats.
I’ve said before that it takes luck and a lot more [...]

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