Monday, June 16, 2008
singapore

land area: 707 sq km
total population: 4,589,000
citizens and pr: 3,583,000

total employment: 2,730,800
foreign workers: 900,800

average monthly earnings: $3,773
hours worked: 46.3/week (excluding lunch break)

mobile phone subscribers per 1000 ppl: 1225 (?!)

the average singaporean actually lives rather comfortably. i mean, $3773 a month is a pretty decent amount to live on. but gosh we have to work 46.3 hrs a week?! on a 5-day-wk basis this means more than 9 hrs a day.. gah..

and yea supposedly 1 out of 3 workers in singapore are not citizens or pr. u can't really blame some singaporeans for thinking that foreign workers are taking away jobs from locals, since the employment growth for foreign workers stands at 19.1%, while the rate for locals stands at 5.2%. but i guess the foreigners are largely taking jobs that singaporeans dun want, like construction and engineering. darn i think sg is really getting low-tech. we need more engineers!

and why do so many ppl need more than 1 mobile line? we have more mobile phone subscriptions than ppl?!

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