again, another person who dont read and assume and i really wonder about the 'scholar' status.

First, it is true not all ministries and SB paid the same and not everyone start on the same scale; certain SB that requires very specific set of skills (e.g. DSTA, MAS) have much higher STARTING salaries than their counterparts to capture the 'talents' and also because certain positions are indeed NOT OPEN to FT. but eventually, they even up because of different pay adjustment criteria.

In GENERAL (and I meant around 90% of CS), and if i want to be generous, 85% of CS are getting 'average' pay benchmark against their counterparts but never as high as what most people said here. It is actually bad karma to paint an over-nice image for people in CS because people might be jealous of those in CS but they really do not earn that much and yet OT alot.

N LOL at that idiot saying that MOST people can reach 6-7k in 7 years in private sector. Must have been earning 3k himself after 10 years and wanting EVERYONE to feel as bad as him.