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1994 White Paper on Competitive Salaries for Competent and Honest Government said:
(YA2006 FIGURES) Profession/Sector $ mil
Lawyer 4.29
Accountant 3.72
Banker 3.33
MNC 2.70
Local Manufacturer 2.30
Engineer 0.62
Gahment say the median salary of lawyer is $4.29 million.
True or not? How many lawyers are there in SG? If median salary is $4.29 million, it means a lot of lawyers make millions a year.
Same goes for Accountant. $3.72 million for median salary. Newspapers advertised accountant jobs for maybe on average $4000-$6000 per month. That is less than $80,000 a year. How did the $3.72 million come about?
Even the high flyers in accounting make maybe $200,000 a year. Ok, some maybe paid $300,000K a year. There aren't too many accounting job that pays more than $1million a year, how did the median salary of $3.72 million come about? Mind you, median means middle so if $3.72 million is the true median, there is a lot of accountants making $3.70, $3.60, $3.65 and so on.
Is it possible the gahment inflate these median salaries to jusstify the high salaries?
If people can prove to the gahment that the median salary for accountants is about $200,000 a year, that will bring down the salaries of the ministers.
Attached: FACTSHEET ON SALARY BENCHMARKS