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Ever wondered which jobs give the highest “growth” in their wages? In this post, I produce (yet another) ranking table for 30 jobs with the highest increments. Some background first. I analysed the wage data from the Report on Wages in Singapore 2006 and found that specialised surgeons, risk management managers and advertising copywriters get [...]
(5 July 2008 – See the 2008 edition of this list.) (8 August – Updated with ranking of 3rd-quartile gross wages.) This is the 2007 edition of my annual list of 100 best-paying jobs in Singapore. It is compiled based on data from MOM Occupational Wages Survey, which is published as part of the Report [...]
You can find in today’s Straits Times a list of the top 5% highest paying jobs. The list, which is based on a Manpower Ministry’s report, is not very different from what I posted in my last year’s top 100 jobs post. Here’s the list (the figures are median monthly gross wages*): Specialised surgeon – [...]
Read the full article at Highest paying jobsBusiness Times reported that financial institutions are paying more in salaries to attract talent. A survey conducted by Morgan McKinley, a banking and finance recruitment consultancy, shows that intermediate-to-senior product controller and project manager hires are the best paid, at $120,000 to $175,000 per year excluding bonuses. Overall, back office and middle office staff have [...]
Read the full article at High pay for bank operations recruitsThe Big 4 accounting firms in Singapore – Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers – have all raised the starting pay of fresh entrants. This is reported in today’s Straits Times. But auditor upstarts with the Big 4 still get low starting salaries of $2,400 to $2,600 per month compared to other industries like [...]
Read the full article at Low starting pay in big 4 accounting firmsMINDEF 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 [...]
Read the full article at Higher starting salaries for MINDEF and SAF entrantsAccording 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 [...]
Read the full article at Bank executives work long hoursMr 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 [...]
Read the full article at Charity sector payForbes.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 [...]
Read the full article at Best-paying jobs in the USThe 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 [...]
Read the full article at Cost of living is top concern
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