jpatokal wrote:Well, the basic difference is expat vs local. Expats are employed by the home company, are protected by the home country's laws (usually a lot better for the employee than Singapore's) and get paid in the home country's currency. Locals are employed locally, paid locally, and subject to Sing law (which means that after 50 years of service you can be fired with one week's notice and without any reason).
As for salary ranges, it depends a lot on your field: do you have specific expertise, or are you just run-of-the-mill MS coder? For case A you might get S$10000 in the right field, for case B you'll be competing against hungry locals & Indians and might not even pass S$5000. As a reference point, a college grad can be hired for less than S$2000.
quite right adjective "hungry local and indias" and salary of 2000 many people ask the salary in singapore and ask advice to come bcak. the salary is the right answer. i mean i read in anzdnet article that IT expats in singapore earn a salry above 23,000 US$(23%) PER MONTH !!!!!,
13000-23000US dollar per mont (19 %) and rest above 8000USD per month. I was amaze. I have seen people with many years of work experience working on a salary of <2000USD in singapore. find me a job where we get that. if you are writing an article in a popular magazine you should properly research the whole market. this can cause quite a lot of misunderstanding especially for expats. you land here thinking something and ar egiven a loaf of bread with no butter.
