JobsDB Compensation and Benefit Survey Report 2011
26% of employees are expected to freeze, while 74% of employees will have pay rise in 2011, including 15% of employees having a salary increase of more than 5%. No pay fall is reported.

2.1 Pay adjustment – by company size
In terms of company size, companies with less than 50 staff is reported to have the highest average increase of monthly salary in 2011 (5.0%). The average salary adjustment among all companies is 3.6%.

2.2 Pay adjustment – by business sectors
In terms of business sectors, financial services is reported to have the highest average increase of monthly salary in 2011 (9.3%), followed by medical / pharmaceutical (8.3%). The average salary adjustment among all business sectors is 3.6%.

2.3 Pay adjustment – by job functions
In terms of job functions, clerk / secretarial / operation is expected to have the highest salary increase (6.0%), followed by engineering (4.5%). The overall average across all job functions is 3.6%.

2.4 Pay adjustment – by job positions
In terms of job positions, the highest average salary increase is observed in executive secretary (7.5%), followed by operations officer (7.1%) and office administrator (6.6%), all from the job function “clerical / secretarial / operation”. In all job positions, none of them has recorded a downward average salary adjustment.
- Accounting
- Clerical / Secretarial / Operation
- Design
- Engineering
- Executive / General Management
- Human Resources & Administration
- Information Technology
- Shipping / Logistics
- Marketing
- Merchandising
- Retail & Chain Stores
- Sales
Accounting


Clerical / Secretarial / Operation


Design


Engineering


Executive/General Management


Human Resources & Administration


Information Technology


Shipping / Logistics


Marketing


Merchandising


Retail & Chain Stores


Sales

