I have a few friends working in Singapore. Some of them expressed their unsatisfaction. There are always a double-standard policy in Singapore companies, where salary range of Singaporean staff is always higher than Malaysian (at least 20% higher). While most of Singaporeans do not like difficult tasks (physically mainly), they would push all these to Malaysians. For example, my friend has a colleague who has the same level of experience, position and qualification. But my friend is the one who were asked to do the tasks that normally people don't like to do, such as site inspection, market survey, information collection, etc. I heard his salary is lower than his colleague.
This is a norm in all countries, including Malaysia. Just ask yourselves, what do you find the staff in your company who come from a third world country which is lower than your country? However, I think there is exceptional case that Singapore companies treat their staff equally.

Definitely too low. Singapore PR or Citizen can get S$2200 and above.

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Added on April 30, 2008, 12:18 amYes, most of the local Chinaman companies does. But if you work in an international company or a big listed company, that's a different story. What they want are talents.

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Singapore salary guide.


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But I think the starting salary of a fresh grad is higher.

It is not correct. Starting salary of fresh grads in Singapore is MUCH HIGHER than Malaysia. Please see the latest news below. Hope this can happen in Msia.

Fresh Grads

May 28, 2008

Business grads are getting hired faster

By Sumathi V Selvaretnam

BUSINESS school students are highly sought after by the financial sector - nine in ten of them are snapped up even before they graduate.
Of the 1,232 students who graduated from the Nanyang Business School (NBS) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) last year, 90 per cent secured a job months before graduation.

According to the latest NTU graduate employment survey released on Monday, its business students were hired in fields such as auditing, accounting, investment banking and consulting.

Over at the National University of Singapore's Business School, eight out of ten of its 2007 graduates got a job before they left school, according to its employment survey results released on Monday.

Citibank, UBS and KPMG are some of the big companies which are hiring students as early as six months before they are due to finish school.

Over the past three years, business and business-related courses like accountancy and economics have been top choices for A-level and polytechnic students heading to university.

But students pursuing non-business related courses have reason to rejoice too.

NTU's survey showed that its 2007 batch of 4,847 graduates drew a starting salary of $2,900 - 7.8 per cent more than the $2,690 which their seniors from the previous year took home.

The top 130 earners received paychecks from $4,000 to $10,000.

The mean starting salary of the 2007 cohort of 328 NUS business students went up by 13.6 per cent to $3,079.

About 36 of its top earners received salaries of between $4,000 and $10,800.