There are 3 type of employment / work passes which are EP (Employment passs), SP (S Pass) and WP (Work permit)

By the way I have heard that if you are a WP holder before / still holding WP, you can't get married with Singaporean or Singaporean PR in Singapore.

my mate who worked in Australia as an accountant, never in an audit firm applied for assistant manager and is offered about 4.5k though i am not sure if that is inclusive of CPF or not.

You can perhaps ask for 3.5 - 4k ? Unless you think that's too low you can back it up higher and let them come back to you with a counter offer

edit: My mate is current working in commercial firm and not audit firm. For audit in Big 4, if you are looking at a lower senior role its roughly around 4.5k

This post has been edited by witchx: Oct 8 2013, 01:21 PM

what did you put as your expected salary when you applied / were asked? Or was there no mention about salary at all until their offer?

if what you have written down as expected salary matches with what they are offering, i don't see it as an issue as you were ready to take the deal if you put your expected salary around 1800 - 2200 for example.. However if you have already asked for a higher expected salary like 2800 - 3500, then you can perhaps try to negotiate for higher salary.