Fresh tech graduates from S’pore unis bag highest starting pay of over $5,600: Survey

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Fresh tech graduates from S’pore unis bag highest starting pay of over $5,600: Survey
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The overall median monthly gross starting pay of graduates across different sectors was $4,200 in 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – Mr Fazirul Hanafe was in his last year of studies at the Nanyang Technological University in November 2021 when he landed a job as software engineer at social networking company Meta.The 26-year-old graduate, who has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science, said: “Once I got the offer from Meta, I stopped looking for other jobs...

The poll by the National University of Singapore, NTU, the Singapore Management University and the Singapore University of Social Sciences also found that degree courses in information and digital technologies had the highest proportion of graduates in full-time, permanent work at 93.5 per cent, compared with the overall rate of 87.5 per cent.

The recent job losses are part of a “normalising” of demand for services by certain tech firms which had aggressively hired during the Covid-19 pandemic, he said. Said Mr Fazirul: “The skills we have as computing science graduates are also quite transferrable... You could be a software engineer, a product manager, a quantitative analyst, just to name a few roles.”

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