You have answered the question yourself. With so many job seekers seeking for the safe haven of public service, competition is extremely tough.

Not all industries in private sector are that badly hit. Private sector jobs in tech, healthcare/phamaceuticals still seems quite good to work in currently..

Salary adjustment in June
 

For those whose annual salary adjustment is in June, check out the pacgov.

How long does it take for hr to come up with a conditional offer/package and get back to me?

Seem like your definition on gross is different from MOM definition. Please clarify before causing more confusion here. The previous previous seem more legit and sensible.

s://stats.mom.gov.sg/SL/Pages/Gross-Monthly-Income-from-Work-Concepts-and-Definitions.aspx

Just keep trying and not give up. I graduated from private uni and had about 5 years of private sector experience before switching over to public sector

The Hr person is correct...... Gross has employee cpf contribution (ie not deducted).

guys, no need to debate on this.

i am pretty sure the gross salary mention by the other earlier poster about his job offer is pay with employee contribution only.

it is not the MOM definition (include bonuses and employer contirbution)

in fact if anyone here think the mentioned CS gross monthly pay in this forum is inflated by bonuses and and employer contribution, then you are wrong. so far mostly are really talking about monthly pay with employee contribution, wirhout bonus and employers' one

interesting topic here.

let's jus share. mx11a p.a 125k excluding employer's cpf contribution.
is this average, above or below avg for mx11a?

How old are you and how many years or experiences? Which agency? This seem better than average and assuming you are under 50 yo