It work both ways, I am offered lower salary say 2 SGD to 1 RM seeking a job at home. BEM say engineers' experience in Malaysia only recognised after registering as graduate engineer.

So you took the offer and worked in SG now?
Yea I aware, but that's only for PE registration right? for job application people don't really care about that.

Nope, I am the other way round. Worked here after graduation. Want to go back Malaysia. Nope still stuck in SG.

haha, why don't want stay in s'pore? people trying to go there, u trying to come back XD

true to that.... and they squeeze every drop out of us too

is there some scale of salary that i can compare or measure? i'm getting an offer, not sure if it is good or not. as i dont know how expensive SG will be.

Different priorities .

haha,ok, but then being a SG grad and worked in sg before, you will sure get good offers here.
I actually don't really like to go SG work as well, but being born in JB...haiz...haha

The FIRST POST on this thread contains the monthly EXPENSES...from there you can roughly gauge...on how much you can save or not

i read the first post. so yeah, still not very clear.

lets say i make XX RM when i go there, should i expect XX in SGD or it will be lower/higher than XX here? were XX is the arbitrary numerical value.

Normally you can expect lower XX in SGD if you are earning XX in MYR.

But with experience, sometimes you can get dollar to dollar XX value or even some increment sometimes. Case to Case basis.

ah, that makes more sense. how much lower? 20% 40%? First offer i got from X company was 60% cut in XX. now, Y company is talking about 40% cut from my current XX. i feel this is a lot of cut

Then it's up to you.

If let's say ur salary is 10k getting 40% cut, you earn around 6k sgd. If you are the type to convert, it's still more than your MYR salary and 6k sgd you can live an easy and wonderful life in Singapore (at least for me). If you do not have much commitments, I believe your expenses will be minimum around 1k SGD. Anything more than that, you can save. This is base on my own expenses, I do not go for entertainment much.

Sometime companies in Singapore is trying to exploit foreign employees (especially Malaysian), they know Singapore currency is strong, therefore, they try to 'tekan' you as much as they can. But of course there are some good companies too. In this scenarios try to think what you really want.

1. Work and live in Singapore. (I do not think it's worth it for that salary cut)
2. Work for many many years, then go back Malaysia. (maybe worth it if you can save a lot)

Here the expenses is cheaper than Malaysia. (dollar to dollar). Food is cheaper (hawker), no need to pump petrol (public transportation), branded and good stuffs are cheaper. Of course there are things that is more expensive, example the room rent or if you want to buy a car.

thanks, this is all very informative. I can see how they want to exploit. That exactly what i felt when i had the call. I'm not even malaysian, so yeah. i will work and live in Singapore. I guess i need to have better negotiation skills. lol

mind to share where you are from and which field you are in?

rather than trying to cut here cut there, benchmark your offer $ amount against what the market is paying to see if it's fair or not lo. http://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/Occupational...ables-2012.aspx

Anyone know when a SPR couple buy resale hdb, the 3 years waiting rule applied to both husband and wife or anyone from them has obtained pr more than 3 years is good enough?

I think it's both.. =)

you need two ppl to buy, so it applies to both. I think by the time 3 years is almost up since it was announced, they probably gonna extent it to 5 maybe ?

hitsu and 7 for all mankind are correct, it applies to both. so if your PR > 10 years but your wife PR today approve u still gotta wait 3 years.