PRS earn 32% more than S’poreans?
Statistics on the incomes of S’poreans & PRs: 20th percentile Gross Monthly Income From Work of Full-Time Employed Residents (including employer CPF)$2,500 20th percentile Gross…
1.08m workers’ real pay never or hardly increased, in the last 2 decades?
-0.08% Service & Sales workers Negative -0.08% p.a. real decrease in minimum income last 21 years, for Retail Service & Sales workers! https://www.facebook.com/laoliang/posts/pfbid02AZe8Vrm9izVZ8TK3URrVoVcKT5n8agSCuJnnjvjcXHrEwVVm1JtxKUANJgg7e1ZLl 0.04% Cleaners…
Why real pay never or hardly increased for so many workers, in the last 2 decades?
-0.08% Service & Sales workers Negative -0.08% p.a. real decrease in minimum income last 21 years, for Retail Service & Sales workers! https://www.facebook.com/laoliang/posts/pfbid02AZe8Vrm9izVZ8TK3URrVoVcKT5n8agSCuJnnjvjcXHrEwVVm1JtxKUANJgg7e1ZLl 0.04% Cleaners…
Fresh graduates’ real starting pay increase was dismal – Poly 0.3% p.a. last 14 years?
Poly real increase 0.3% last 14 years? The median gross monthly salary among university fresh graduates in permanent full-time jobs was S$3,800 in 2021 https://stats.mom.gov.sg/……/Singapore-Yearbook-Of………
Negative -0.08% p.a. real decrease in minimum income last 21 years, for Retail Service & Sales workers!
I understand that this is the largest group of workers, by occupation, in Singapore, at 239,200, in 2021 https://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/EmploymentTimeSeries.aspx Just imagine that your real pay…
A Tale of 2 Cities?
Hong Kong S$20.8b Social Welfare Singapore S$3.9b Social and Family Development Hong Kong Budget 2022-23 Social Welfare HKD120b (S$20.8b) (14.9% of total expenditure) Health HKD162.8b…
Price increases during Covid, effected or announced, even before the GST increase:
1) Grab commissions charged to drivers 2) LTA fees 3) ERP 4) Property tax (twice) 5) Public transport fares 6) Polyclinic fees 7) Fuel duties…
Education spending on non-S’porean students was about $500m a year, about 13/14 years ago?
After writing “Masters oourses self-funding – many words, very little numbers?” https://www.facebook.com/laoliang/posts/pfbid02h72Qg1ohKhqr1422fcsErChixQSxkCBkQhzs2KEp7qKGaKSqDF86nzySh6DT9pNul and “1 in 3 university students struggling? (Part 2) – Real Tuition fees…
Masters oourses self-funding – many words, very little numbers?
“Most research-based master’s degrees subsidised by MOE” (ST, Dec 19) ” Most postgraduate programmes that are based on research continue to be subsidised by the…
M-SEP scheme – can hire more foreign workers beyond the quota, but no minimum salary for work permits?
“Singapore’s lifting of foreign manpower quota for some firms is no free lunch” (ST, Dec 18) Comment: How can enabling companies to temporarily hire S…