BCC grade admitted to engineering?
Our “university insider” alerted us to the fact that according to a university’s Indicative Grade Profile (IGP) – the 10th percentile of students admitted in most of the engineering courses has deteriorated to grades of BCC or lower.
Competition from foreign engineers?
The primary reason for this may be due to the influx of foreign engineers who may be willing to work for lower pay.
Last year, an engineer from an ASEAN country said that after all the deductions – his monthly take home pay was only about $900.
In an ASEAN country – there have been advertisements recruiting engineers to work in Singapore at a salary of about $1,500.
From the grapevine – preference may be given to employ fresh engineering graduates, but mid-career engineers may be having a very hard time getting a reasonable paying job.
Engineers’ salaries historically?
For example, according to the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) wages benchmarking tool – the median basic pay for mechanical engineer, assistant engineer (mechanical) and mechanical engineering technician – are $3,850, $2,500 and $2,250.
As the median is half of the workers in the occupation category – does it mean that that there may be quite a lot of engineers, who may be working for lower pay?
If anyone who reads this article is an engineer or knows about the employments issues that may be affecting the engineering profession – please help to share.
SY Lee and Leong Sze Hian
