my 2 cents about the professor profession.

It seems a pretty good life if you love doing research and are committed to academic type of work. A close assistant professor from university of michigan of mine only meets his boss once or twice a year. The objective of the annual meeting is to receive compliment from his Boss "great job you did!" Other than that, the whole entire year you work on your own research and present at annual marketing..finance.. operations conferences.. depending on what field you are in.. you get to stay at nice hotels and meet smart people..

he's paid 15k per month only 32 years old. damn.

Is it true that SMU here pays asst profs 20k a month?

SMU president earns 1.1 million SGD annually. duno about the rest...

yes, but only the law profs and finance profs that have a finance phd. the rest are lower. but not that much lower either.

Rubbish.
You just have to teach in some other uni first.
Then you'll be eligible for employment in NUS.

If u are interested for the sake of research study professor is a good option . But if u study professor for the sake of high salary. I have doubted that u might succeed. Is an unguarantee trait with a lot of monetary and time invested. I think u better use your scientific knowledge to develop the next Facebook/ next ****** or next spaceship which can benefit the human race

Nope. Its about 140k pa. But! You get a LOT LOT LOT of free time to earn extra teaching money elsewhere by teaching other courses.

looks like smu prof pay even higher than top bankers!

starting pay of phd holder
 

Got a friend with fresh phd offered teaching job at a Poly only on a $4K pm salary. isnt it too low?

Wow.. That's rather low... I have 3k pm.. And I just started work