21 January 2017
The salaries of polytechnic graduates from last year’s cohort have risen again. Those who landed full-time jobs enjoyed a median pay of $2,180, up 3.8 per cent from $2,100 in 2015.
However, more polytechnic graduates are finding it harder to land full-time employment or prefer to work part-time while pursuing or waiting to start further studies. Those with full-time jobs fell from 57.9 per cent for the class of 2015 to 55.8 per cent for those graduating last year.
This trend, which has persisted for three years, could be due to a soft global environment for trade as well as a worsening economic outlook for Singapore.
Those taking up part-time or temporary employment rose from 31 per cent in 2015 to 34.8 per cent last year.