the S'pore Prime Minister earns big. his Ministers earn big (Bush Jr. had a good reason to once joke he should come to S'pore and be a minister.) well the good pie's gonna further be shared with fresh graduate civil servants. bravo to S'pore, a small place where civil service is monetarily appreciated big.

at an 8% to a 24% up on basic salary, the engineers can go hullabaloo being the biggest gainers (up to S$3190), while the economists would sip on a good life getting the biggest numbers on their cheques, S$3320. and so, soon enough the civil officers could comfortably parallel the average S$2900 thereabouts that business graduates rake in a month.

thing is, some engineers would stand to gain more than others. i'm not too sure how the pay raise is formulated. but it looks like a good honours degree is worth much more than just a piece of paper, as the graduate grade is a very significant determinant of whether one's in the upper quartile of the increase.

well this corporate meritocracy doesn't favour me at all. most probably i'd start off in the public sector. and so even as the common pay scale isn't at all depressed, i am depressed. to quote Sigmund Freud, "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." well Tuan promises to work hard to be human again.