| Unregistered |
08-12-2017 08:12 PM |
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
(Post 103018)
Don't you think is stupid to adjust civil pay upwards when they are already paid higher than the average? Did you follow the posts here? On average, civil servant is paid 5-8k in less than 5 years. The most recent ones mentioned starting pay 4k and after three years close to 6k. Why should there be an upward adjustment?
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Come join the CS and you'll know why. In any case, not true that all civil servants are paid higher than average. Depends on their areas of specialisation. You compare an engineer or auditor or legal-trained person in the CS their pay is definitely below average of the private sector equivalent. But they get better work life balance. Generally those higher paid ones are because their work is so niche (e.g. diplomat, policy writers, uniformed and intelligence services) that their skills are practically non-transferable to the private sector. If they don't pay well for these jobs to attract good people, either they attract monkeys or no one will want to do these jobs which are critical to the country. If you are truly capable and talented, you're much better off being a businessman, lawyer, doctor, entrepreneur than being a minister. Much more pay and much less stress. It's always a competition for talent between the CS and private sector. And remember, many of these mentioned posts in the CS can only hire Singaporeans, so the talent pool is even more limited. |
