Hi all, is it true that for work permit holder, they can only open POSB bank acc in chinatown branch? thanks

anyone got room to rent? im looking for a room at jurong east area..pm me

please advise,

my bf going to graduate from a local uni. he did Bachelor of IT (hons) business information system.

would u advise him to get experience first in malaysia rather than coming to sg to hunt for a job as a freshgrad?

his friends can get $3k to $4k(with OT) working as support in a bank. well most of them end up working in IT department in a bank.

it seems like the pay is not bad. i fear when he comes here he will be getting low pay job like $1800 basic and dunno whether he can have any career advancement in sg companies.

if he can have a better job prospect in malaysia, then i dun wan him to come to sg for a low pay job because he wants to be with me here...

I'm a work permit holder, and I have a UOB savings account along with a debit card.

Just need to bring $1,000 for initial deposit.

hi guys. need to ask for PR fee, on the website it says the fee is $100, but in the letter it states I have to pay t/e re-entry permit as well? and other fees I dont really know what are those. so total how much should i pay?

Hi all!
just to enquire, if im holding EP holder working at Singapore for 5 months and i am returning back Malaysia.
Do i need to tax?

Thanks!

Yes. 5 months means u will be taxed as a non resident at a tax rate of about 20%

Don't have the breakdown but I paid $200 in total for PR formalities

Tax rates for non-resident individuals


Employment income
Your employment income is taxed at 15% or resident rate, whichever gives rise to a higher tax amount.

http://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/page04.aspx?id=1190

i think is best for your bf to apply for both side, then see which one he get first. then only decide. no one can guarantee that he will get a job in SG in a short period. i can see that the main concern is money. who say malaysia got career advancement but sg dont have? career advancement is based on how badly you want to climb higher, if you want to climb, anyhow you also can find a way for career advancement. apply both side then you can compare the career and salary.

i think so.. IT industry not the same in sg huh..

well also depends on how good the person is la.

i have be confident with him

Ya agree. Apply both side. First come first serve.

I also from IT line. 1st year came to Singapore.

They don't recognize my Malaysia working experience and only getting $1100 per month.

Slowly slowly climb after 7 years manage to get 4k+ per month.

7 years???

seems like malaysia value programmers better....

IT people in my bank about 3k plus for fresh grad I think. 1.8k is long long time ago... Career advancement then depend on his competency already.

Yalol bad luck and i not working as programmer.

Sg IT pay not that high maybe because too many competitor (China,India,Philippine,Vietnam,Myanmar and etc) .

Compare with KL i prefer SG because can save more money (depend your lifestyle).

Due to the strong Singapore currency every year still can go to travel.

I believe the fresh grad is refer to local uni graduate student.

Without PR as a foreign worker unlikely to grab the job or you must be very very lucky person.

Haha I stand corrected

Just curious, what is your qualifications (dip? degree?) and what job role are you working as? To be honest $1.1k is a very low starting pay ... one of our member tayhaithian got offer as $7k as fresh grad a year ago and now already $8k++++.

omg =S $7k as fresh grad in IT?

That's why our mum ask us study good good lo. Y no listen lol but listen to those people saying GPA is not important bla bla bla. If the us, uk ivy league foreign graduate come here, normal local uni grad also need to step one side...

Deodorant, 7-8 years ago that time the salary is like that kind of range one. Local graduate around 2k, 8k is the high end investment banking guys liao. 3 bedroom condo in Bukit Timah only 600+ k .