Salary avice

sahilmalik wrote:

Hi All,

I am from United States, and now moving to Singapore for at least 15 months, along with my spouse.

I have few questions in before accepting this offer
-what is a normal cost of living in Singapore.
- Should i go for Local plus compensation package or balance sheet approach.
-Which area do I prefer to live

Thanks in advance for all your suggestions.

Welcome aboard.

I am sure members will answer your post soon
For cost of living try www.numbeo.com

For salary try www.payscale.com

Better than payscale.com are various Singapore salary surveys regularly published by headhunters and consultancies. You can use Google to find them!

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You are in a very specific (and small) niche, so it's unlikely somebody here can help you.
Regarding salary range, you might consult Singapore salary surveys that are regularly published by some headhunters and consultancies (find them by Google).

Hi,

note that in Singapore there is 3 standards:
1/ until recently there were no minimum wage, meaning that someone working in a famous fast food chain is paid around 6-10$ SGD => you do what you can to survive
2/ confortable singaporean life => you live in an HDB, own a car => 2000-3000 SGD/month for your appartment, so I guess around 5000 SGD income is a good average
3/ expats life => you live in a condominium (4000-6000 SGD/ month), so an average package could be around 10000SGD

Petitmicky wrote:

2/ confortable singaporean life => you live in an HDB, own a car => 2000-3000 SGD/month for your appartment, so I guess around 5000 SGD income is a good average

How so?
S$2000-3000/month to rent an HDB is o.k., but having a car costs another S$1000-2000/month, and if you have kids in an international school (getting foreign kids into local schools is very difficult) add another S$1500-3000/month. Everything else (food, clothes, public transport, moderate entertainment, etc.) comes to S$600-800/month per person, so that a family of three needs S$6000-10000.
Also, the average Singapore household (also a family of three) has an income of S$7000/month - and they don't pay rent, since they own their HDB flat.
Singapore isn't cheap!