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The rocky road to raising low-end pay scales
The roll-out of the Progressive Wage Model spells great promise, but also challenges
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A general cleaner can expect to see a cumulative increase in basic wages of 84 per cent from 2022 to 2028.
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One of the glaring anomalies in Singapore’s social compact is how poorly paid blue-collar workers are compared with their counterparts in other advanced economies, even those with per capita incomes lower than Singapore.
For example, plumbers in Australia are paid around 40 per cent more and nurses up to 75 per cent more, even though Australia’s per capita income is about 20 per cent less than Singapore’s.
