Tag Archives: Manual Labor

Malaysian handymen specializing in trade skills like plumbing, electrical work and general manual tasks, may cause the death of the local tradesman industry, local insiders say. Malaysian plumbers, for instance, may perform simple repairs for $50 per job, a rate that is at least 100% cheaper than regular local plumbers in Singapore.

As written in this article, welders, forklift operators and panel fitters earn between $1100-2500/mth. Are you telling me that given such "high" salaries, especially with the current job market for S'poreans, that S'poreans are unwilling to be trained to take up jobs for these positions? $2500 is the starting salary of an Engineering university graduate (ten years ago and still now)! Poly graduates earn less. PMETs may also have to work overtime and long hours (ok, in the air-con and not under the hot sun). Student-care teachers earn $1500/mth. Child-care teachers earn $2500 or less per month. These are teachers who work with students. (Of course the wages are suppressed due to foreign labour).