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I have friends who graduated from poly now earning 5k and they are only 30 yrs old. Engineering is so dead in SG. I believe in a few years time, an engineer in China will earn more than an engineer in SG. |
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the default annual increment and promotion increment is around (3% to 8%) depends on performance Just to justify that someone who working under ST group with 4 yrs of exp, should be getting around $3300 to $4400 basic salary (excluding bonus, aws...etc), depends on performance. That guy claim that he get about $8000 basic salary at age 29 under ST group with 4 year exp is totally 'WOW' unbelievable |
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A senior engineer should be earning around 6-7 k $. However, a fresh undergraduate mite not reach senior engineer position is 4 yrs. The guy claiming 8000SGD mite have worked elsewhere before joining ST or he mite be very good. |
Engineer are a respectable lot in Countries like USA, Australia and UK. The type of engineer that makes a lot are those who work in the Oil/Gas/Mining Projects, not those who work for the operation of the finished plant or in the office in Singapore. While the job is challenging, you do expect to relocate to new places once the project is completed. Hence, the sacrifice could be quite alot especially if you have companion, and even worse if you have family.
I have worked my way up from a Project Engineer, then Engineering Manager and now Regional Manager. Looking back it had been been alot of hardwork and sacrifice I have put in, but financially it has been lucrative. I am beginning to see fruits of the hardship and plan to retire in my early 50s while my kids continue their tertially education overseas. Bottom line is Engineering is a good career if you shape it the way you want it to be, otherwise, like all other discipline it could be another mundane dead end career. |
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Femail civil engineer with 10yrs experience. Local NUS grad with good grades. Not one of those who take engineering because no where to go. My advice: Study engineering by all means, but try to go into finance or banking. Don't be like me, stay in this line until too late to switch. All for the "passion" to be an engineer. Or go into biz, law, med if you can. For practical reasons- the pay is simply better and less risk at work. When you are young and enthu, you will want to be an engineer- you'll enjoy the challenges of working on site, building huge structures. But then, after you have a family, you start to want better things for your family. And unfortunately, engineering really doesn't pay that well. It's enough to get by, get a car, maybe enable you to get a nice property (if you save hard enough, though this is uncertain with current property prices). But you cannot expect to be rewarded as much as bankers, etc. So, the bottom line is- should you follow your passion or take a better paying job (which probably have better work life balance)? |
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I like engineering because I personally like science and mathematics. Singaporeans who feel constrained by engineering have to leverage on their other advantages. As PM said, China's universities produce many excellent engineering graduates, but Singaporeans have to play the card which highlights their strengths, be it to be able to communicate with both westerners and the chinese, or our management expertise. That's how Singaporeans remain competitive. At least this is what I believe now. I'm still a noob when it comes to the working world. I hope I'm not wrong and regret my decision in the future. :D |
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