Really that bad for engineers?

#**711** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 01:22 PM

Looking at all the pay...
i feel so shameful... 10 years with dip chem eng.. only 75k per annum..
need to work harder and get my degree in 2-3 years time..
i'm late late late....

#**712** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 02:09 PM

I really regret joining 2 GLC in the whole career, till now pay still lower than my peers who start off same time as me.

Gender: M
Age: 31
University: NUS
Engineering Field: Civil
Honours Type: 2 upper
First Job (Industry): Surbana
Starting Salary: $3345

Present Job (Industry): Biz Park Development
Basic Salary: $6600
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): $400
Others Benefits (optional): None
AWS (yes/no): Yes
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): 3 - 4 months

Number of job change: 1
Total working Experience (yrs): 6

#**713** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 02:26 PM

Gender: M
Age: 34
University: NUS
Engineering Field: Civil
Honours Type: 2 upper
First Job (Industry): Foreign bank
Starting Salary: $3400

Present Job (Industry): Financial risk management
Salary: $15k
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): $12k/annual entertainment expenses
Others Benefits (optional): $3k flexible health
AWS (yes/no): no
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): 120k, 30-40% vested in stock option over 3 years
Number of job change: 2
Total working Experience (yrs): 7

#**714** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Gender: M
Age: 36
University: Foreign
Engineering Field: Electrical Engineering

Present Job : IT Presales and Delivery
Basic Salary: SGD $15500 /mth
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): SGD $1,000
Others Benefits (optional): Standard
AWS (yes/no): no
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): SGD $12,000

Total working Experience (yrs): 12

hey dreamboy

what presales u do ? u sell your backside or what ? where got high basic & low bonus ?

#**715** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 04:22 PM

Gender: M
Age: 39
University: Arizona
Engineering Field: Industrial
Honours Type: None
First Job (Industry): Healthcare R&D
Starting Salary: $2.4k

Present Job (Industry): Medical Sales
Salary: $17k
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): $2.2k
Others Benefits (optional): None
AWS (yes/no): Yes
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): 6 - 8 months
Number of job change: 3
Total working Experience (yrs): 15

#**716** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 08:23 PM

Gender:M
Age:28
University:NTU
Engineering Field:Mechanical
Honours Type:Pass with merit

First Job (Industry):Energy
Starting Salary:$2,400

Present Job (Industry):Energy
Basic Salary:$3,739
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc):$925
Others Benefits (optional):Standard
AWS (yes/no):no
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS):2 months

Number of job change:1
Total working Experience (yrs): 2.75years

#**717** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 09:05 PM

Gender: Male
Age: 29
University: NUS
Engineering Field: Mechanical Engineering
Honours Type: 2nd Lower

First Job (Industry): Utility
Starting Salary: $2700

Present Job (Industry): Utility
Basic Salary: $3460
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): $100
Others Benefits (optional): $750 flexible benefits (cash) per year, can sell 14 days of leave for cash
AWS (yes/no): yes
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): 5 months

Number of job change: 1
Total working Experience (yrs): 4

#**718** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Gender: M
Age: 34
University: NUS
Engineering Field: Civil
Honours Type: 2 upper
First Job (Industry): Foreign bank
Starting Salary: $3400

Present Job (Industry): Financial risk management
Salary: $15k
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): $12k/annual entertainment expenses
Others Benefits (optional): $3k flexible health
AWS (yes/no): no
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): 120k, 30-40% vested in stock option over 3 years
Number of job change: 2
Total working Experience (yrs): 7

pay is quite standard for mid level risk manager, but 1st time hear risk manager got entertainment expenses ..... entertain who arh? sound very questionable ...

#**719** (**permalink**) 14-09-2012, 11:09 PM

working with the golden bird?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Gender: M
Age: 30
University: NTU
Engineering Field: Mechanical
Honours Type: 2nd lower

First Job (Industry): Aerospace
Starting Salary: $2900

Present Job (Industry): Still at 1st job
Basic Salary: $3842 (with 1 promotion included)
Allowance (Car/ Handphone etc): No
Others Benefits (optional): additional 5% of basic salary is given by company to buy stock.
AWS (yes/no): yes, 1 month
Average total yearly bonus (exclude AWS): 3-4 months

Number of job change: 0
Total working Experience (yrs): 5 years

#**720** (**permalink**) 15-09-2012, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

working with the golden bird?

what is golden bird!?!?