Toa Payoh north. I also think is expensive, perhaps need to nego with landlord. I rent the small common room and share toilet with him already 750 bucks. I was looking for clean quiet and walking distance to MRT back then.

I rent common room in braddeli in 201e already 750. Now shud be 650 or 700 le, cos market weak d. U overpaying!

i used to rent at toa payoh north too. during 2014, the common room was $800, with aircond lah.

i tend to overpay tho. $1000 is too much but still a lot out there charging this price despite market down.

my current masteroom is $900 at taman jurong, yes overpriced but no owner live in together so i took it.

Ya. But he clean my room regularly like cleaning bedsheet and vacuum carpet. Also iron shirt weekly. So i still can accept the rate, consider reasonable, with private tv and air cond too.

Rentals also vary quite a bit between estate (close to town, far from town) and location within estate (next to MRT, 10bus stops away), no? Don't think it's possible to get a master room rental for $800 in tanjong pagar, tiong bahru etc.

Surely u will use the situation to your advantage right?

SG branding. Give people the impression of high efficiency and competent. But come back 1 month localised and tak apa attitude de.

No arguments there. Just amused that what is "fair compensation" varies wildly whether one is moving from KL to SG and vice versa.

Because theoretically if KL to SG, 1:1 is a "fair compensation" move, why wouldn't a 1:1 move in the opposite direction also be fair?

Im hoping for a 1 :2 move leh when i go back....

HAHAHAHAHAH i get what you mean.
but realistically do you think people will pay RM15k for a SGD5k job here? i seriously doubt so.
because SGD5k job here is usually a manager level. and the same rank in KL doesn't pay RM15k. right?

woke up today feeling all melancholy... missing my life in sg aih

My peer group in KL now making abt rm12-14k as Finance Mgr in mnc... and im making less than half that for a similar role. A MNC manager here maybe 6k to 10k nia max, so the conversion ratio for my industry at that pay grade seems to be abot 1 : 1.5.

But im hoping to get a "promotion" on my way back la, so that can be a 1:2. Try to sell myself higher with sg experience and all that bullsh*t


Eh where did u go? I tot u always in sg one?

moved to the gulf region last year body here in the gulf but heart and mind in sg

Good leh. A developer offered me 1:0.4 as FC. Cina pek company.

Cinapek company ask u do dodgy stuff anyway. Better not.

anyone tried applying for housing loan in singapore before? do the banks require any documents from malaysia to show your credit status in malaysia? or only singapore documents required?

Yes, it can be considered fair.
But it's entirely up to you to accept or to decline the fair compensation.

U don't move from your current position just to get a fair deal rite?

When a person jumps from Company A to Company B, lot of people will say you should ask for 10%-20% increment to be fairly compensated.

But when the person jumps back from Company B to Company A, a lot of people will say must get another 10%-20% increment to be fairly compensated.

So same ratio applied

That expectation applies when one job hop within the same country

But cross country job hop, should be paid that country market rate

Hi guys,

Will be going to Singapore for work starting 3rd April. Joining the group yay