Life in Sg

It is interesting, life here in our little dot. We get peanuts for pay and everyone other company head is claiming we are too expensive. Hey, compared to many other countries, we are still cheap hor... But living here is not cheap... Just consider this as an average:

Salary: 5k
Take home: 4,100

Car loan: 800
Fuel: 400
ERP 170
Car Park HDB: 90
Food per day: 10 Per month 300
Road Tax per mth: 150
Insurance: 150
Housing per month: 300 (top up for CPF shortage)

What you have left: 2,360

If you have a family and have to pay the bills and utilities, you can easily take out another 1,000 at least.

Now then friends. This is if you are careful with your spending and also you try to save, because if you notice, I did not put anything for luxuries and so on. No eating out, no partying and so on. So you make your own calculation.

It is not cheap to live here and probably you will have to hire a maid to assist you in your household chores while your wife has to go out to find a job. A maid's base salary will be 450 soon and the government levy is around 300..... That excludes her food and so on..... so my frens... if a household does not have 5k a month.... you are well and truly screwed....