“The median monthly gross salary of “production craftsmen” and related workers – such as electricians, mechanics and carpenters – grew by 17 per cent from $2,051 in 2001 to $2,400 in 2012, before adjusting for inflation.”
However, it just stops short here, without doing the adjustment for inflation.
Inflation from 2001 (CPI 88.4) to 2012 (CPI 113.1) was about 28%
- does it mean that the above real median salary growth was about -11%?
If we look at the median salary excluding employer CPF contribution -
The real median income change from 2008 to 2013 was only about 1.0 per cent per annum.
For the 20th percentile – the real change per annum for the last 10 years was only about 0.3 per cent.
According to the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) web site, the real annual total wage change (excluding employer CPF) from 2008 to 2012, was -2.4, -1.0, 2.7, 0.1 and -0.8, respectively.
This works out to a cumulative real decrease in wage change of about -1.5% or -0.29 per annum, from 2008 to 2012. A negative real total wage change for last 5 years.
Nearly three quarters of 155 women stayed in their jobs for at least three months, Mendaki’s subsidiary training arm, Social Enterprise Network Singapore (Sense), said on Wednesday.
The programme, called Project Step Out, catered to women above the age of 21 who had been unemployed for more than six months and wanted to find work.
Does more than half mean that only 53 per cent managed to find jobs after completing the programme?
Since three quarters managed to stay in the job for 3 months, does it mean that only about 39 per cent managed to find and still have a job after 3 months?
Did any of them drop out before completing the 15 months 148 hours training programme?
Why there is no mention as to what is the median basic and gross pay of these women?
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Han Hui Hui