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Old 03-06-2011, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by coo.za View Post
3.3K is on 12th percentile in one survey, which i think is quite on the bottom end.
The 7 surveys include robert walters, payscale.sg, jobscentral, MOM, salary.sg, and others (forgot the name). Kelly doesn't have semicon engineer data.
Word of advice, never use these data sources to argue with your HR. They will laugh at you and tell you to get lost diplomatically.

Reason is very simple, headhunters like robert walters & jobscentral like to inflate their data significantly because of self interest, nobody in HR believe that crap other than desperate or inexperienced job seekers.

Those online free salary websites also a bad idea since most of it is based on self-reporting with no fact checking. MOM data is hard to use since theirs is a very generic amalgamation of salary based on general titles, so it doesn't really say much about how much your job is worth.

Most companies do professional benchmarking and job pricing using paid information from specialised consultants that cost quite a bomb, so you can't really get them unless you are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a report.

So if you really want to know how much you are worth, the only thing you can do is ASK for more money from your company & see how much they are willing to give. If not, go out & attend many interviews and quote specific prices to see if there any takers. You should be able to have a rough idea how much you worth.
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