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Will there be a civil service salary adjustment next year?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Will there be a civil service salary adjustment next year?

Heard rumours about this as well.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Heard rumours about this as well.

All the posts regarding civil service pay is on the high side. The adjustment should be downwards then.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

All the posts regarding civil service pay is on the high side. The adjustment should be downwards then.

And why is that?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Heard rumours about this as well.

Do you know when it'll be announced, if it's confirmed? And from when would the staff have to employed in order to get the adjustment? E.g. Join 1 Jan 2018 or 30 Jun 2018

Originally Posted by Unregistered

All the posts regarding civil service pay is on the high side. The adjustment should be downwards then.

Don't be stupid. Downward adjustment is not going to happen.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Don't be stupid. Downward adjustment is not going to happen.

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?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

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?

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.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

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.

Generally on average, even GLC has lower salary than CS or PS. This is well known fact especially verified here at salary.sg.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Generally on average, even GLC has lower salary than CS or PS. This is well known fact especially verified here at salary.sg.

Agree, working in local GLC, 2.2 w NS, 10yr exp in same GLC, starting 2.9k, now with 2 promotion 5k nia. Average performer.

the key 10 years exp.

10 yrs exp in starboard/CS should be getting 6-7k already min.