From a perspective of your pay relative to your peers, the figure is (on average) about 0.83 sgd to 1.00 rm. So if you were getting rm5,000 in KL, and coming to SG on sgd4,150, you would be equally compensated in SG and in KL relative to your peers. Of course there are other factors in play such as security, safety, better infrastructure, better prospects, etc, for which it might make sense to you to accept a "lower" compensation.

Interesting that the higher you go up the pay scale, the equivalent salary ratio gradually drops from (almost) 1.0 to (roughly) 0.65-0.70. So for those junior people coming over to SG this data seems to support the notion that you should be actually fighting for more than 0.9 sgd to 1.0 myr if you don't want to be short changed.

http://www.robertwalters.com.sg/career-adv...ary-survey.html

In the organisation I work in, some of the departments have ridiculous naming conventions. Fresh grad right out of college as long as got a degree already "Assistant Manager." Their seniors are "Managers" who then report to "Senior Managers." So by title only Senior Manager but by responsibility and payscale is probably just a junior management position

So are you planning to move to botanic gardens area and get involved in school activities as a volunteer so your kid can have a better chance to get in?

http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/


Prepaid yes, but you don't get the carrier subsidy.


I'd think there's not much difference. I'm currently on starhub 150mbps fibre, latency to WoW is around the 180-220ms range without any tunneling services.

Congrats and welcome to the club. The company is supposed to give you the IPA (in principal approval) letter from MOM (ministry of manpower). You print this and enter SG (do note that you still need to fill up immigration white card). Once in SG, do medical check up if necessary, then follow the instructions on the IPA to schedule the completion of formalities to get your EP card issued by MOM.

Also, PM your contact number/details to MacKiddo and ask him to add you to "the list." There's about 20 of us who meet up fairly regularly to do BBQ's, TCSS, yumcha, etc etc.


PM yeahs4.1, this one is Boon Lay kaki and I think also looking for housemates.

Company decides what pass to apply for (prospective) employee leh. Employee got no say in the matter.


EP criteria isn't that high. degree + $3k/month job and you qualify liao. Considering you've already got 5 years work experience it shouldn't be a problem for you to get a job offer within EP range.

You are right, though, in that many companies won't bother with the trouble of hiring a foreigner unless the foreigner is very skilled or very cheap, etc etc.

Yes and no, I suppose. The company applies for a specific type of pass (WP, SPass, EP). In the application, the company can opt to tell MOM to "grant the lower pass if higher pass unsuccessful." Example the company could try to apply EP for employee, MOM might say eh EP cannot but I give SPass lah. But the company needs to initiate in the first place.


As a fresh grad, maybe not. As a degree holder with FIVE years experience like yourself, you should be looking at way higher than 3k which is like ... fresh grad pay


Half the taikors posting here like seantang, mackiddo, keelim, mercury are elites earning 15-25k+++ monthly. Don't assume that Malaysians are universally low paid in SG because of your ONE friend. Although I understand how you feel cos I am low paid bank clerk as well.

What's happening here is that you've somehow only been meeting the bottom feeders (of receiving SG job offers) and assuming everyone else is also getting that same low pay. Go check out some salary surveys to get a better idea of what Singapore salaries should be like.


seantang has a secretary. anyone high rank enough to have a secretary would be earning big bucks.
keelim is in IB, and they get paid craploads of cash.
mackiddo is senior guy in O&G.

So yes, I'm sure they all earn at least 10k per month

The problem is not the installment, it is the down-payment. Vast majority of us coming over from Malaysia wouldn't have rm500k in savings lying around to plonk down on the condo, so no choice but to rent.

In your current company, do you talk to the security guard and the receptionist and then say "omg my company sucks cos they pay all their staff so low! rm1000 only per month omg how to survive?" no, right?


You have never set foot in SG and your entire knowledge of Malaysians working in SG consists of a couple of bottom feeders ... and here you are dishing out opinions about the SG labor market?

On a whim I added up every single ringgit I've earned in the 5+ years I worked in KL before coming over to SG. After conversion, also not enough to put downpayment on a 4 room resale HDB flat haha

If by bus then see your luck whether the Malaysia side ask u to stop and check lor. I cross SG JB by bus never before kena asked to put my things to scan at the Malaysia side.

no need. once you've done your fingerprinting at EPSC than can liao. just scan your passport at the auto gate and use your thumbprint. No need to even show your EP card to anybody.

oh, didn't know that there's such a card. only ever seen people using passport to cross the autogates.

From his previous comments, it seems his friends don't know SG full stop and are bullsh*tting him left right and centre, yet he is taking their word as gospel and assuming that he is now an expert on all things SG


Yeah, but any long term pass holder also can use it. Funny story the other day I was queue'ing at Tuas and one Singaporean lady was looking damn lost and confused, turned and asked me "eh this lane Singaporeans cannot use ah?" Cos everyone around her holding non-Singapore passport lol.

Anyway according to ICA, "With effect from 5 April 2011, ICA has ceased issuing Access Cards." So everyone now uses passport 1st page can liao, no more access cards.



Yes. Like crazy25kid and IlikePanadol shared, we can all pass the autogate using passport and we never applied for anything also. I've passed at airport, woodlands, and tuas all also no problem. Even my fiancee last time on LTVP (long term pass) also can use autogate. caihong I really got no idea why he cannot use.

the new passports that are ICAO standard or something like that have this logo:



but my previous passport without this logo (issued in april 2007, expired april 2012) also can pass through SG autogate leh.

bunny talking nonsense. the only "1st year" is that Work Pass holder allowed to drive in SG on foreign license for 1 year. After that must drive using SG licencse.

http://driving-in-singapore.spf.gov.sg/ser..._conversion.htm

Not entirely accurate. Normal practice in SG is that two agents are involved, the "landlord's agent" and the "tenant's agent." The typical agent fee is 1 month per year of contract (so if you sign a 2 year contract they would charge 2 months), shared between both agents, for which the tenant pays half to his agent, and the landlord pays half to his agent.