My profile is similar, 5+ years exp in private sector in supply chain scheduling, no teaching experience. Currently getting $7,360, should I put this as expected salary or add the usual 20% upside when applying for Senior Lecturer?

I think it will be quite hard to ask for 20% more, I will just put 8k as expected and try your luck, if not settle for same pay.

20% would be ~9k, quite hard if only 5 years exp.

My profile is similar with 9 years of experience in life science, but ite offers almost the same pay as my basic pay. Think is quite hard to haf 20% increment. Anyone knows about the bonus, can share more information? Heard from HR is just PB and 1month AWS?

how much is your current? if above 10k not realistic to expect ite to add another 20% on top.

Mine is less than 7k

I am an ITE lecturer too teaching for about 5 years now. I wish to correct your statements.

Emplacement is purely based on 2 predominant factors: First, your boss, SH/CM must "endorse" your application. If not, it won't get through to your DoS. Secondly, Private uni degrees most often than not don't get emplaced. Unless you upgrade via the local uni path, there isn't a chance that the private degree gets recognized. I know this to be true after I graduated from NTU.
Of course, there're always exceptions, and only HR knows what kind of exclusions are applicable specifically to certain characters. We won't know the reasons why based on the rumors from the grapevine that certain people in certain departments were emplaced and of course, urban legends will dictate that these people happened to know some one high up or have connections that common folk like you and me don't posses.
It's very much up to you to believe in the fallacies some might have painted to you with regards to emplacement.

Next, the part on bonuses. There isn't such a thing as "taking turns". If that be the case, everyone will have gotten their dues every few years. It's in fact really performance-based. If you do not perform i.e. taking on additional projects and I mean award-winning ones or leading students to those international or national competitions, you'll probably get side-lined and end up with average or dismal performance grades for that year. Period.

As an ITE lecturer, you are not allowed to moonlight. It's specifically stated in your contract. You're however allowed to teach CET courses in your specific skill trade during the evenings. The rate goes for about $60/hr. However, do know that there's only one pie and some of your colleagues in the same department might have been doing CET courses since time immemorial and probably won't give up their dough to someone new in the department. Unless you happen to know lots of people from different courses in different colleges, you could leverage on your human network to ascertain which courses have problems finding staff to teach CET courses so that you could get in.

Yes. ITE lecturers do get 4 types of bonuses but the major ones are within the months of December and end-March for performance bonus. The 4 components are not secret as it's the same with the rest of the civil service.

For an average ITE lecturer, the total bonus inclusive of AWS for a normal performer is usually 5 mths +/- 0.5. I wouldn't get too wound up over the so called 4 types of bonus. It's mainly slick marketing to make the package sound higher than it is and it also helps civil service to maintain stability in bonus year to year. One poor performing "bonus" can easily be topped up with another without affecting the whole system.