I'm an experienced mechanical engineer from a small SME. My last drawn salary was 4.9k but that's 6 years of experience. I join ST because I wanted to get into a more stable corporate company. SME can collapse anytime and was feeling stuck 6 years.

HR offered me 4.5k because according to them 4.9k going to exceed the pay range. I was given E6 job title. Also my SME only have year end aws no performance bonus. ST reasoned that there is up to 3 months PB so they can't match exactly 4.9k that I'm asking.

I accepted the offer at 4.5k. Got 1 aws and 2 months bonus. So per annum ST did give me a better offer compared to my old SME. After the new scheme my pay was increased to 5k.

Im shocked that fresh grad is getting 5k..
Can I rejoin ST as a fresh grad with 7 work experience? And ask for 5.2k?