Didn't know that govt's hiring of engineers not based on market supply and demand.

Drawing from tax budget or not, there is still a limit, and they have to pay accordingly to market rate as well. When you talk about market rate, you are already talking about supply and demand.

Is there a different between govt's market rate and st's market rate? They are both hiring from the limited pool of engineering talents available in Singapore, be it foreign or not.

I can only say that ST is betting on the ignorance of their new hires, especially fresh grad. So that management can continue to draw above the market rate (my personal assumption) from the amount short-changed from the people below them.

Are you from the management?