How much are you earning per annum?

i am doing waste management, mainly handling waste segregation and recycling portfolio. its a small startup that i found in 2018 after i finished my studies, and i drew 3k salary for 5 years, was the lowest paying employee despite being the founder. a salary revision was approved by the board last year, so i am slightly above eating grass now, wife is a little happier. no 13 month no bonuses across the company for now, we are still in the reds due to high initial setup cost, but these 2 years has been good with new contracts signed with partners.

2018 to 2023 - 36k
2024 to 2025 - 120k

2020 - 55k basic, 7k bonus
2021 - 75k basic, 12k bonus
2022 - 84k basic, 18k bonus
2023 - 87k basic, 33k bonus, 13k stock options
2024 - 113k basic, 35k bonus. 18k stock options
2025 - 120k basic, ??? bonus, ??? stock options

31 yo this year, how am i doing?

38 YO, Govt sector

$13k/month

How am I doing?

Originally Posted by Guest 1

38 YO, Govt sector

$13k/month

How am I doing?

Sounds pretty ok for MX9.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Sounds pretty ok for MX9.

Joke…unless ur surname is Lee

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Joke…unless ur surname is Lee

You are right, I'm MX9 equivalent at agency, there are limited spots at Dir/GD-level, and it becomes even harder to promote upwards after, likely need to do a secondment at parent ministry as a SD to move up one more step for the younger and more ambitious guys. I'm at my CEP/LP ceiling already, unless this round of leadership changes will cause some shuffling or reorg.

24 - 3.2*13.5
25 - 3.8 * 13.5
26 - 5.1 * 13
27 - 7.1*20
28 - 8.8*20

24 - 3.2*13.5 = 43.2
25 - 3.8 * 13.5 = 51.3
26 - 5.1 * 13 = 66.3
27 - 7.1*20 = 142
28 - 8.8*20 = 176

To add more info - Finance/Accounting

Originally Posted by Unregistered

SWE 1 in 2018, then I got promoted in 2019 to SWE 2.

2021 I hopped to AWS, role was Software Architect. TC includes the 20k USD sign on bonus along with the 100k 4 year vesting RSU.

2023 got laid off, my H1B visa has a law that says if I can't find a job within a few months, I must return to Singapore so I did. Then I couldn't find a job at all in SG, interviewed at TikTok and even did 2 on-site at Google.

Feedbacks were all good but Google's team matching process took over a year only to tell me no headcount... TikTok just ghost me. In 2024 I did close to 20 interviews, literally tried any company, Citibank, JP Morgan, Autodesk, Lazada, Grab, Mastercard, Paypal and many more.

I got rejected by all. Pretty sure I didn't fail the interview, if you know what leetcode.com is, I have a CR of 2.3k on it which puts me at a top 5% rank globally...

I am 99% sure I got rejected because they couldn't match my old salary of 285k because some of the recruiters told me that they couldn't even give 50% of my old salary... which is hilarious because first of all I didn't even ask for it, in the "expected salary" field, I asked for 80-100k.

I ended up accepting ST Engineering role as Application Support.

It is what it is, a job is better than no job. Tech market in SG has always been garbage.

did u try gahmen opportunity?

45YO 100k pa
Is it sad?