Originally Posted by Unregistered

the problem is not hospital pay too low, but civil service pay too high IMO.

think about it, as long as u get a degree and dun screw up anywhere big time, it is almost guaranteed to get at least a AD or SAD if u stay long enough. monthly by itself is already quite good, add in the almost guarantee will get something bonus, add in the iron rice bowl, work life balance etc. the whole deal is much better than what the pte sector get.

sure pte sector has higher ceiling, farmer also can be a hot shot drawing >200k a year, but the average middle age PME probably gets like ~100k annual, some part of it in bonus that when times are bad can easily drop to 0, have to face pay cuts, retrench, replace by hostile FT boss etc.