grade F here, got the same grating C last yr and this yr, this yr bonus more than last yr

How many months you got this year and last year for getting C?

you share yours first, hehe

B performance grade with 3 months bonus. As a new bird with not much expectation for salary, I was grinning the whole day when I see my May pay slip with all the bonuses added in. Hehehehe

congrats for getting B, well deserved it. did you get promoted? mind to share the % of increments?

you share yours first hehe

I just joined this year. So will only find out in June that’s why want to know many months a grade C got this year.

more than 1.5 months

I keep seeing this question so I thought it might be good to tell you, your mic is the one that decides the pct you get for increments. There's an increment budget pool given to your mic and he does what he wants for his staff. There isn't a standard that all depts adhere to. So depending on who you ask the answer will always be different. No point asking

The May promotion letter does not include mdr yet or AWS.

sorry, what is the "mic" mean here?

actually best is ask the colleague you are closed to, they might share with you
it works for me, at least

If promoted this year, will my grating default to C for next year? hearsay ministry got this practice, did GT follow this?

its not a default but its harder to get a higher score since now you are suppose to perform way better since you are at a higher grade

Thanks.

What’s the % of increment for grade C this year?

6-7%, what did you get?

Don’t know yet because just joined this year and just cleared probation. Will find out in June.
Grade C got 6-7%. That sounds high.

probably you will get pro-rated. typical year is only 3-4% increments.

Wow, this year grade C without promotion can get 6-7% instead of normal time 3-4%. Not bad

What role and department are you in?

got differentiate by role?

I'm not sure because I know some C grader that are not getting 6-7% even prorated.

LTA tech role have MAC bonus, GT got such things?

nope. but why you wanna join sub par agency

the whole purpose of MAC is to try to close the gap, GT is already leader already. of course no need to have that.

But GT going to give MDR so its another leg up.

Is MDR out?

for this MDR things, how it works? map everyone to the same salary range based on grade? YOE?
so recent grating & increments % doesn't matter right since they will just up your salary to 70 percentile of the market rate?

I heard details will be out by end month.

Something like by % of your salary but not a high %

all get the same % like the Jan one?

what is the range we looking at?

those who joined Govtech from MNC, what replacement Govtech offer in replacement to RSU ? is there something similar for public sector ?

nope, tech for public good!

depending on your competency level and grade, don expect much as the MDR is to close the gap on the lead the market.

I manage my expectation to expect 3-7% only which is good enough

I got 4+% prorated because I converted to perm in Sept 2021 and the increment is from April 2021 - March 2022 hence I got a pro-rated 7mths jump which I think was quite ok.

this 4% is the market adjustment or the merit increment

if so, waive for our tax pls! HAHA

when u converted to perm, did you get any increments?

work is still working, you earn more and you pay more tax.

cannot be you take and don give back right?

might as well say I don wanna do NS cos I tech fo public good haha

Senior management needs to manage expectations better.
 

Senior Management team hyped everyone up for a pay adjustment -- known as MDR internally (Market Differentiated Roles). For context this is a list of roles (mostly tech) and was told that there would be a pay adjustment to match market rates as long as your role falls in one of the positions.

Fast-forward to when everyone is expecting to receive the MDR adjustment, the management announced during a company-wide meeting (GovTech con) that it will only apply for employees who are a certain pay grade and above. Essentially junior staffs do not receive the pay adjustment.

Advice to Management

Please manage expectations among all employees better, if you are going to announce that people in the roles will receive a pay adjustment then don't give this kind of news at the very last minute.

It is things like these that contributes to the attrition rate when the grunts have no faith in their leaders.

We've all learned our lessons haven't we? Next time ask more questions, try to find all the loopholes they can play.