Originally Posted by Unregistered

I sometimes wish this thread about civil service salary would stop. Just take a look at how some of our fellow Singaporeans are performing. At age 30 years old, he is still earning $2.8K and do you think that he is the only one with that salary here? There are many others who are the same age or older who are earning that range of salary.

Civil/ public service is really about serving the public. Do you know that public servants used to sign off as "Yours sincerely" when writing to the public. It had a lot of meaning to it. Did you join the civil/public sector just because of the healthy MIs or to serve? Do you know that some grads are earning less than $4K in their 40s and they are our fellow Singaporeans with family?


Have you guys read today's news? It was reported that from year 2000, the income gap had begun to widen. Do you know that there is a wage stagnation for those in the private sector right now?