Lawyer Salary

law is not for everyone de.i know many peeps talk alot huan but hor in the end all fail exam or drop out huan.in exam is not whether your angmo is gd but hor is whether what u write ish what the examiner huan to see or not.the worse hor is those who dunno anything huan then hor when you noe alot they look at you like goldfish and ask u how u noe so much huan.read the textbook lor.if u ish not the type to read the textbook,judgments, blah blah then dun waste your time to do law.if your A level gd hor then you go NUS or SMU.if your A level cannot make it then if your daddy got $$$ send u UK or Aussie` study then song and u sibeh heng.if your A level cock up and u have no $$$ then do the UOL LLB lor.but plss hor.don't go here and there and tell peeps that u can become lawyer in Singapore with UOL LLB law degree hor.peeple will laugh at u huan.then u will look like gonggong siao.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Would also like to know more about Legal Service payscales, if anyone has the info!

Starts at 6B, and goes to 6A, 5B, 5A, etc.
Grades 6 and 5 are timescale, while Grade 4 to 1 is superscale.

Timescale salaries are currently.. behind the private sector a bit coz the private sector salaries jumped a bit faster in the past two years. But it will probably be reviewed and increased soon.

Superscale salary is well... basically what you would expect.

Hmm but what sort of numbers are associated with 6B or 6A and so forth? If I'm not wrong the legal service payscales are higher than the MX payscale, but not sure by how much exactly.

Hi, I get > 500K pa as an in-house GC. I am considering joining the Legal Service. Will they match my current salary?

At this pay scale, I would expect that you hob nob with enough people in the know about such things. You have to come to this forum and ask?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi, I get > 500K pa as an in-house GC. I am considering joining the Legal Service. Will they match my current salary?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

At this pay scale, I would expect that you hob nob with enough people in the know about such things. You have to come to this forum and ask?

Obviously a fake.

You won't find detailed information on Legal Service salary online. This information is confidential and officers are bound by OSA.

But as a rough guide, for Grade 6B (entry grade), if you have 2nd upper honours and did NS, you can earn almost 80k pa, including bonuses.

Hey cheers man.

Yes I quickly found out about the almost complete lack of public information on LSO salaries online after a few minutes of searching. Why is this so? Why would Legal Service Officers be especially bound not to reveal their salary when they are public servants just like the typical officer in a Ministry? This seems very strange to me (that public service salaries paid for by taxpayer dollars should be allowed to be held in such confidence), and if anyone has an explanation it would be really welcome. I mean, even accurate Admin service salary info can be found if really motivated, though not online, in books.

In addition, does the Legal Service give "vocation" related bonuses, eg. for being a JLC and whatnot?

Thanks to anyone who can fill me in.

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I have a more fundamental question.

How does the earlier poster conclude that the salary of a legal service officer is supposedly confidential and subject to the OSA?

Information regarding a legal service officer's salary, albeit extremely outdated information, can be found online rather easily: http://www.lsc.gov.sg/eligi.html

This salary information is extremely outdated. The Legal Service scheme has been revised more than once since then and adjusted more towards the private sector. The current information on the different pay scales are confidential. Even an LSO would only know the salary range of his/her own grade as well as the very grade above him/her.

I have no idea why this information should be kept confidential (I know some ministries state the starting salaries of their officers online) but it is... So I can't reveal more! As I have said in my earlier post, a Grade 6B with 2nd upper honours and NS can earn you almost 80k pa, including bonuses.

As for "vocation" related bonuses, I'm not aware of that but from what I know, JLCs do get paid higher.