Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

To the guy from MOE, promotions and increments usually happen in April and not May. Btw how did your pay jump by $600 on 2013 when there were no ministry wide increments?

There was an 8% increase but that was only in 2012...

However I must say, your current pay level at 1A2 after 3 years of service is quite accurate.

April/May are promotion months, but Oct is when the salary increments would come in.

May 2013 I got my 1A1 rank (though it was at this point where my 8% and annual increment kicked in), but it was only Oct 2013 when I actually got the increment.

Likewise, received my 1A2 in April 2014, but increment only came in in Oct 2014.

The downside? A PB of C for the past two years.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Salaries are usually scaled to honours. Just like mindef. The difference between a First class and a third class can be around 1k. And thats just the starting salary!! FCH holders will progress faster, get more increments.

Guys only get 200 more per month from NS lol.

Yeah but I attained first class (female), but post NIE was about 3.7k

Originally Posted by Unregistered

April/May are promotion months, but Oct is when the salary increments would come in.

May 2013 I got my 1A1 rank (though it was at this point where my 8% and annual increment kicked in), but it was only Oct 2013 when I actually got the increment.

Likewise, received my 1A2 in April 2014, but increment only came in in Oct 2014.

The downside? A PB of C for the past two years.

was it because of the promotion, hence the PB of C?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah but I attained first class (female), but post NIE was about 3.7k

Lol, then maybe he is lying lor. If all else is the same, he should be getting 3.9k after NS for post-NIE and not the 4.1k that he has mentioned. Maybe he included his bonus or sth.

Teachers in MOE is sick in their mind, and it is a sad thing that a bunch of psychopaths are in charge of our kids.

I would advise against people becoming a teacher unless you have the attributes below

1) Suck coc
2) manipulative
3) you are a pretty girl
4) you are a scholar

For such a high salary, people are leaving in droves not without reasons. Everyone can take very high stress. Not everyone an stoop low and licking the coc of their HOD for survival.

I don't wanna sound too desperate here, but actually if you've been rejected in MOE interview before, what're the chances that MOE will call you up for an interview again?

I understand that there must be a 6-month period in between before you can re-apply, but after re-applying, will they just ignore your application (due to whichever reason that you got rejected the previous time)?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't wanna sound too desperate here, but actually if you've been rejected in MOE interview before, what're the chances that MOE will call you up for an interview again?

I understand that there must be a 6-month period in between before you can re-apply, but after re-applying, will they just ignore your application (due to whichever reason that you got rejected the previous time)?

I would say now is different compared to 10 years ago, last time the number still not meet the target of 33k workforce but now there are excess teachers around in most school, very difficult to get into the teaching workforce...

One very important value that MOE always look for is integrity.....how they judge that you have integrity I am not very sure, as can they tease the 'real' integrity from their interview??

Originally Posted by Unregistered

First Degree: 2nd Lower
Years of Working Experience: 11
Gross Salary of last Job: $6700
Salary offered by MOE:$4340
Year offered: 2014

My sharing to those who wish to switch to MOE, do it ASAP....

me...with 4 years experiences switch to MOE get a 15% paycut in 2003

my friends (same time) ...with 11 years experiences switch to MOE get 45 to 50% paycut in 2003


Now both of us in the same pay scale GEO1A3 and hit to the ceiling of $7400 per mth, did not have pay adjustments for last 2 to 3 years
Both are relatively happy as a teacher, work to help our younger generation, the hardwork you put in do not equaute to your pay, usually teachers work long hours, but our focus is not the money but the students, i think as both of us in the mid 40 to 50, we are happy and just want to have a stable life in teaching

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Now both of us in the same pay scale GEO1A3 and hit to the ceiling of $7400 per mth, did not have pay adjustments for last 2 to 3 years
Both are relatively happy as a teacher, work to help our younger generation, the hardwork you put in do not equaute to your pay, usually teachers work long hours, but our focus is not the money but the students, i think as both of us in the mid 40 to 50, we are happy and just want to have a stable life in teaching

I am glad that teachers like you have the correct mindset. Kudos to you.

anyone know what's the yearly salary increment for 1A1?