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Reflect The True Side Of Singapore Citizen Life
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Are Foreign maids better off than our local working class women in Singapore?
The earning power of Singapore's poorer citizens Vs Singapore's Foreign maids:
Madam Jin Pai Mia is a 55-year-old spinster belonging to the Lower-Income Singaporean category. She works as a cleaner in Commercial office building and earns S$900 a month.
Madam Jin takes the MRT to and from work every day. That's about S$1.50 x 2 x 24 days = S$72 a month.
She pays about S$60 for her water and electricity bills at home. She eats three meals a day, each costing an average of S$3.00. That's S$3.00 x 3 meals x 30 days = S$270 a month on food. Let's say Madam Jin falls
sick once in a while and needs to see the doctor. We'll put it at S$20 month.
She rents a flat from the HDB. Let's say it's S$250 a month.
That's S$672 on basic stuff like transportation, water, electricity, food, medical care and accommodation. After deducting S$672 from Madam Jin's monthly salary of S$900, she's left with S$228.
Now, a foreign domestic maid gets about S$300 a month. However, the maid does not need to spend money on public transport to get to work each Day.
Her employer pays the electricity and water bills and provides three meals a day. The maid's accommodation is essentially free. If the maid falls ill, the employer is, by law, responsible for her medical expenses. So when the maid gets S$300 a month, the maid really earns S$300 a month.
However, when Madam Jin gets S$900, she's really earning just S$228 a month. Athough foreign maids get low salaries in Singapore, you will see that the average foreign maid's earnings are quite comparable to the
earnings of the average Singaporean in the bottom 20%.
So, what's the morale of the story??
Let's all be maid if our salary is lower that S$1000.00.
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Are Foreign maids better off than our local working class women in Singapore?
The earning power of Singapore's poorer citizens Vs Singapore's Foreign maids:
Madam Jin Pai Mia is a 55-year-old spinster belonging to the Lower-Income Singaporean category. She works as a cleaner in Commercial office building and earns S$900 a month.
Madam Jin takes the MRT to and from work every day. That's about S$1.50 x 2 x 24 days = S$72 a month.
She pays about S$60 for her water and electricity bills at home. She eats three meals a day, each costing an average of S$3.00. That's S$3.00 x 3 meals x 30 days = S$270 a month on food. Let's say Madam Jin falls
sick once in a while and needs to see the doctor. We'll put it at S$20 month.
She rents a flat from the HDB. Let's say it's S$250 a month.
That's S$672 on basic stuff like transportation, water, electricity, food, medical care and accommodation. After deducting S$672 from Madam Jin's monthly salary of S$900, she's left with S$228.
Now, a foreign domestic maid gets about S$300 a month. However, the maid does not need to spend money on public transport to get to work each Day.
Her employer pays the electricity and water bills and provides three meals a day. The maid's accommodation is essentially free. If the maid falls ill, the employer is, by law, responsible for her medical expenses. So when the maid gets S$300 a month, the maid really earns S$300 a month.
However, when Madam Jin gets S$900, she's really earning just S$228 a month. Athough foreign maids get low salaries in Singapore, you will see that the average foreign maid's earnings are quite comparable to the
earnings of the average Singaporean in the bottom 20%.
So, what's the morale of the story??
Let's all be maid if our salary is lower that S$1000.00.
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