Money matters

I found the info on the salary in Singapore (see Salary.sg), and I pick some game production related jobs to share with  my students here (in SGD):


1. Managing director/ Chief executive officer – $29,102 [This is what I want my students to earn to be my boss]

7. Chief operating officer/ General manager – $15,005 [including those in game studios?]

10. Creative director (advertising) – $14,750

11. University lecturer – $14,000 [minimum qualification is PhD, this is what I probably will get]

13. Software and applications manager – $12,280 [digital games are software in a broader sense!]

26. Marketing and sales representative (ICT) – $9,396 [those who sell games]

34. Customer service manager – $8,462 [Online game customer service manager??]

37. Sales and marketing manager – $8,125

38. Management and business consultant – $7,982

39. Quality assurance manager – $7,848

45. Information technology project manager – $7,570

51. Education manager – $6,998

52. Producer (stage, film, television, computer games, video and radio) – $6,970

74. Software, web and multimedia developer – $6,065

76. Artistic director (stage, film, television and radio) – $5,834

99. Information technology testing/ quality assurance specialist – $4,800

For us Malaysian designers to beat these figures, we need to have global mindset. Our clients should no longer be limited to Malaysian. US, China, Japan, Korea and Middle East countries could be our main source of clients. Once the idea of glocalisation becomes a reality, getting salary higher salary than those working in Singapore is no a problem. When this happens, our brothers and sisters who are working in Singapore will return to us--after all, money really matters.