BIZARRE HR
Singapore - If you have ever heard that giving tuition is a lucrative job, you're right. Some Singaporean private tutors can easily earn up to half a million dollars per annum.
Full-time physics tutor Phang Yu Hon is currently taking home S$520,000 yearly. However, he is not the only high-earner in the local tuition industry, reported The Straits Times.
According to the country's Department of Statistics, the value of the flourishing industry was reported to be worth S$820 million in 2008, a spike from S$470 million in 1998. During the same 10-year period, Singapore saw an addition of 400 tuition centres, increasing the total number of tuition centres in the country to 500.
Would the news of the well-paid tutor cause a demand for jobs in the tuition sector? Only time would tell if professionals start quitting in droves to pursue a career as a private tutor.
Nevertheless, the major rise in centres providing supplementary education may have done local students some good. Student Koh Sheng Jie only obtained a pass for Mathematics in primary four. After years of receiving tuition, he scored a distinction in the same subject for ‘O' Levels.
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