Young graduate gets offered $3K for an office executive job, asks ‘how to survive’ with a take home pay of only $2.4K

A young graduate took to social media after getting worried that they were being lowballed on the salary offered for a new job.

In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, the netizen who had graduated from a private university asked if being offered S$3,000 for an office-based executive job was considered to be low pay, especially taking into consideration today’s market and inflation.

They added that a salary of $3,000 would mean a take-home amount of $2,400 after CPF deductions.

“How to survive? Is it unreasonable to ask for a higher range of salary? Graduates 10 years ago are already earning this amount or more”, the graduate wrote. 

In their post on Sunday (Aug 21), they added that while older people would often say that going to university may ensure a better paying job, “it doesn’t seem to be the case maybe because everyone’s a uni graduate now.. STRESS”.

Most of the netizens who commented on the graduate’s post said that for a start, they should take what they can get and negotiate later.

Young graduate remains jobless for nine months after allegedly being pressured to resign from first job