?Wages up 5.6% amid rebound? trumpeted a news report, as if all of Singapore got a raise.
It looked like they almost wanted to add a ?Woohoo? to the headline.
The news report said that the average monthly earnings of a worker in Singapore rose to S$4,089 (US$3,190) from S$3,872 (US$3,021) in 2009, based on earnings figures released by the Ministry of Manpower.
Based on last year?s inflation of 2.8 percent, the report said the 5.6 percent increase was adjusted to a more modest 2.7 percent in real earnings.
This year inflation is expected to hit 4 percent.
Source: http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/life/say-what-mrbrown/mrbrown-182118
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