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Among the Class of 2010 from NUS, SMU and NTU, graduates from the NUS Law Faculty got the highest starting pay. This is according to the 2010 Graduate Employment Survey results.Featuring for the first time in the Salary.sg ranking tables, the 2010 batch of lawyers from NUS received an average starting salary of $4,770. This ...
Property prices in Hong Kong nosedived 10% in the past 3 months, and are likely to drop a further 10% by year end.You heard it right - a 20% decline in HK housing prices. This is according to a report from HK China News Agency (see Zaobao.com article).A $1m house will now sell for ...
Last year (2007), there were 4,892 landed property transactions.As reported in yesterday’s Zaobao, the hottest selling are terrace houses. The median price is $1.55 million.Semi-detached houses came in second, with median price at $2.23 million.Bungalows transacted at a median price of $4.75 million.Can you afford landed property?
URA has released the Q3 2008 flash estimate of the price index for private residential property. It showed a decline of 1.8% - the first decline in 4 years.Chances are property prices are going to decline for many more quarters.After a spectacular 2007, Singapore (and probably the rest of the world) has swiftly entered ...
Want to know which are the best-paying jobs in the highly lucrative Banking & Financial Services industry?We have compiled a list of 25 high-earning jobs based on the MOM Report on Wag …
Did you have enough cash when the stock market plunged to its lowest points between late 2008 and early 2009? If you did, and you were confident enough to buy stocks, you would have made good money using the market cycle investing strategy.Someone told me he had very much wanted to buy some cheap shares ...
There is a job notice in www.eFinancialCareers.sg that offers a $100k per annum salary for an Assistant Private Banker position.The job scope entails providing administrative and sales support. In other words, the successful applicant will just in effect be a secretary of a private banker. Not much work, I suppose?I’m beginning to doubt my ...
I remember reading somewhere that there are about 70,000 people making $100,000 or more last year. Well, that figure is wrong, at least according to the latest annual report from IRAS.As usual, I analysed the most important appendix in the IRAS report and found that 154,714 assessed taxpayers took home a 6-figure salary last ...
Heard it on radio news again today. Mr Teo Ho Pin, who’s mayor of Northwest CDC, did not deny the Internet rumours that 2 staff from Northwest CDC received 8 months bonus.The news al …
The Public Service Division has announced that civil servants will get a total of 2 months bonus this year end, with 1 month for the Annual Variable Component (AVC) and another 1 month for the Non-Pensionable Annual Allowance (NPAA), also known as the 13th month payment.This year-end bonus is on top of the 0.5 month ...
In a rather critical article, the Wall Street Journal says our export-driven economy is “falling on its face” and the growth model which our government has embarked on “needs rethinking.”The main criticisms seem to be our low consumption, the government’s risky bets on certain industries, and our over-reliance on the …
I thought it’s always safe to delete those <ADV> SMSes without reading them… until I received this unpleasant surprise from Singtel:“<Singtel ADV>U have been selected to enjoy 30 days FREE trial for Colour-Me-Tones. SingTel’s ‘Friends’ will replace your standard connecting tone on 10 Dec. To opt out of trial, SMS …
I have two lists this year - one for the top jobs across all industries and a separate one specifically for the financial services industry, just to show how skewed the numbers are.This is …
In its steepest decline since its inception in 1975, the URA property price index plunged a hefty 14.1% in Q1 this year.The URA property index tracks private home prices in Singapore.The apparent recovery triggered by the strong sales of Alexis and Caspian condominiums in February was just a mirage.As predicted by Salary.sg in October ...
Senior civil servants will get 8 months of GDP Bonus this year. This was announced in Parliament yesterday by DPM Teo Chee Hean.Annual salaries of senior officers in government are “automatically linked” to GDP growth. When GDP growth is 2% or below, the bonus will be zero. As such, these senior civil servants did not ...
Just as we were debating whether engineering is a dead-end career in Singapore, I noticed a common trait among the 2008 batch of President’s Scholarship recipients.None of them is going to be an engineer.From what President Nathan said in his speech, these scholars will all be heading to foreign universities for their studies. (Hey, ...
It was 2,121 last year. This year, the number of people in this exclusive club is 2,751.Not an actual club where people exercise and socialise, this virtual club consists of people who made a million dollars or more last year.As you can see, the number of million-dollar earners has gone up quite a lot. ...
Someone left a comment asking about the pay of university dons. Here’s what I got (based on a thread in Expat Singapore Forum): Professor S$178,750 - S$270,875Associate Professor S$108,625 - S$204,875Assistant Professor S$71,500 - S$121,690If you think the numbers look high, recall that NTU Professor Ngoi Kok Ann, who was found guilty of lying ...
The buy low sell high strategy makes so much perfect sense, it’s hard to understand why people are still flooding to buy stocks and property at this time. (Perhaps they want to buy high and sell higher.)To make money, we should invest a couple years earlier, not now.When you see undergraduates and housewives - ...
Expatriates working in Singapore are doing well economically. 45% of them are earning an income of more than S$265,000, according to the HSBC Expat Explorer Survey 2010.Note: S$265k = US$200k.According to the survey report, Singapore is ranked 1st by the proportion of expats who make more $200k USD a year. Bermuda is 2nd with 40% ...
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