100 Best Jobs in Singapore (2009)

#21 (**permalink**) 24-08-2009, 05:19 PM

hi tech sales, you referring to all types of engineers?
even chemical/ environmental engineer not good?

#22 (**permalink**) 04-09-2009, 09:13 PM

I never knew personal bankers can earn that much and be ranked so high up on the list.

shouldn't investment bankers, private bankers, corporate bankers be getting more?

and a librarian's salary seemed pretty good to me here

#23 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 03:26 PM

thanks for the information. i’m not really knowledgeable about what a financial engineer can do? any position in the list?

@techie what’s the reason for not being an engineer. It seems high for IT professional.

#24 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 03:28 PM

Minister leh? Where do they rank?

#25 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 08:54 PM

you add up the top ten and maybe you’ll get close to minister’s pay. they’re in a different league.

#26 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 08:54 PM

add up maybe even the top 20?

#27 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 09:12 PM

Hahaha

Divide the numbers by half and you have pretty accurate figures. The statisticians who got these numbers need to go back to primary school : they cant even tell right from wrong when the truth is staring in their face.

These statistics are killing the nation, they distort figures to make their superiors happy but they are hiding a terrible symptom.

#28 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 09:14 PM

I never knew personal bankers can earn that much and be ranked so high up on the list.

shouldn’t investment bankers, private bankers, corporate bankers be getting more?

and a librarian’s salary seemed pretty good to me here

#29 (**permalink**) 19-09-2009, 10:28 PM

what about the chemist salary experience up to 4 years in aluminium sector.

#30 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 10:08 AM

Why auditor is not on top 100 jobs list?

As far as I know they earn around 5k/mth. Am I right?

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Originally Posted by Salary.sg

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 the 2009 edition of my annual list(s) of the best 100 jobs in terms of pay (see last year’s edition).

The lists are compiled based on data from the MOM Report on Wages in Singapore 2008.

As with previous years, the numbers reported in the MOM survey excludes performance bonuses, profit sharing and stock options. Even though it’s called a “survey”, actual CPF data is used.

To generate the first list, I look at the third-quartile monthly gross wages of the selected jobs in all industries. Explanation: if you’re at the third-quartile, or 75th-percentile, your pay is higher than 75% of the people.

Here’s the top 100 best-paying jobs across all industries (see also second list below, which is specific to the finance industry):

This second list contains the best-paying jobs in the financial industry. Compare the top numbers here with those above:

As noted by some people previously, pilots, military jobs, top civil service posts and political appointments are not included in the MOM survey. Does anyone know why?

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