{"id":15554,"date":"2021-06-16T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/16\/start-ups-in-singapore-pay-less-than-their-u-s-counterparts-aon\/"},"modified":"2021-06-16T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T02:00:00","slug":"start-ups-in-singapore-pay-less-than-their-u-s-counterparts-aon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/16\/start-ups-in-singapore-pay-less-than-their-u-s-counterparts-aon\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-Ups in Singapore Pay Less Than Their U.S. Counterparts: Aon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The base salary at start-ups in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore is 12% lower than the U.S. across Managerial levels and 32% lower&#13;<br \/>\nacross Professional individual contributor roles.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Start-ups pay 6% more at the&#13;<br \/>\nProfessional individual contributor level in comparison to all companies in the&#13;<br \/>\nGeneral industry as well as the broader Tech industry within Singapore.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SINGAPORE\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a016 June 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aon.com\/\">Aon plc<\/a> (NYSE: AON), a leading&#13;<br \/>\nglobal professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement&#13;<br \/>\nand health solutions, <span class=\"normaltextrun\">has&#13;<br \/>\nreleased the results of <\/span><b>Aon&#8217;s 2021 Private Market Compensation <\/b><span class=\"normaltextrun\">survey. The study, a first of its kind in Southeast&#13;<br \/>\nAsia, focuses on critical compensation data to help organisations create a&#13;<br \/>\ncompelling compensation package that can differentiate an employer from the&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition and aid in scalable hiring plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Base salary&#13;<br \/>\ntrends change at higher levels for Singapore start-ups<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The study found that base salaries at&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore start-ups pay more (6%) than those in the broader Technology (Tech) and&#13;<br \/>\nGeneral industries, across Professional individual contributor levels. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The playing field levels out at&#13;<br \/>\nManagerial levels, with start-ups paying 5% less than companies within the&#13;<br \/>\nGeneral and broader Tech industries. Whilst base pay quantum is quite similar&#13;<br \/>\nacross the three categories of companies, variable pay (cash and equity) tends&#13;<br \/>\nto take up a significant proportion of total compensation in larger organisations,&#13;<br \/>\nas compared to start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Key differences in base pay of start-ups in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore and the U.S. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Start-ups in Singapore enjoy a large&#13;<br \/>\ntalent cost advantage compared to their U.S. counterparts.&#13;<br \/>\nThe study finds that the cost of comparable talent in Singapore is&#13;<br \/>\nsignificantly lower at both the Professional individual contributor and&#13;<br \/>\nManagerial levels. The base salary of start-ups in Singapore compared to the U.S.&#13;<br \/>\nis, on an average, 12% lower across Managerial levels and 32% lower across Professional&#13;<br \/>\nindividual contributor levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>However, while the base salaries are&#13;<br \/>\nlower, Singapore start-ups are more aggressive with their target performance&#13;<br \/>\nbonus (cash) plans than their U.S. counterparts. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>At the Managerial level, target&#13;<br \/>\nbonus for start-ups in Singapore is at 20% compared to 13% in the U.S. At the Professional&#13;<br \/>\nindividual contributor level, target bonuses were also reported to be higher in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore (15%) than in the U.S. (10%). The study also finds that start-ups in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore are more inclined toward cash-based incentives than their U.S.&#13;<br \/>\ncounterparts. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Ray Everett,&#13;<br \/>\nCEO,&#13;<br \/>\nAsia Pacific and the Middle East &amp; Africa for Human Capital solutions, Aon,&#13;<br \/>\nsaid:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rapidly evolving business environment is&#13;<br \/>\ncompelling entrepreneurs to look for low-cost geographies that support ease of&#13;<br \/>\nbusiness and fast track the development of their solutions. Substantial talent cost&#13;<br \/>\narbitrage coupled with availability of strong technical talent makes Singapore&#13;<br \/>\na preferred destination for start-up founders and investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Equity trends among Singapore&#13;<br \/>\nstart-ups<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>U.S. start-ups have traditionally used&#13;<br \/>\nequity for wealth creation for employees, across all levels. For example, the&#13;<br \/>\nstudy finds that 100% of the U.S. start-ups surveyed extend equity to all Executive,&#13;<br \/>\nManagerial and Professional individual contributor levels. Ninety percent of them&#13;<br \/>\nalso extend equity awards to Entry and Support level roles. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Contrastingly, 90% of start-ups in Singapore&#13;<br \/>\ntend to have equity plans predominantly\u00a0for roles that are at Managerial levels&#13;<br \/>\nand above. Only 6% of start-ups in Singapore with less than USD 25 million&#13;<br \/>\ninvested capital have structured equity plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>However, the study finds an&#13;<br \/>\nincreasing trend over the past two-three years wherein start-ups in Singapore are&#13;<br \/>\nexpanding the eligibility criteria for equity ownership to more levels within&#13;<br \/>\ntheir organisations. New and smaller businesses are increasingly moving towards&#13;<br \/>\nthis model of equity compensation for broader levels with the aim to promote an&#13;<br \/>\nownership culture and attract the right kind of entrepreneurial talent, regardless&#13;<br \/>\nof role level.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Clear differentiation between&#13;<br \/>\nTech and Non-Tech roles <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>There is a clear&#13;<br \/>\ndifferentiation in equity guidelines between Tech and Non-Tech roles among both&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore and U.S. start-ups. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Tech talent are provided with higher&#13;<br \/>\nownership percentages in both countries. In Tech roles, equity guidelines are&#13;<br \/>\nclose, with 0.076% for the U.S. and 0.055% for Singapore, at the Professional individual&#13;<br \/>\ncontributor level. For Non-Tech roles at the same level, there is a gap between&#13;<br \/>\nU.S. (0.038%) and Singapore (0.017%) companies.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"eop\">Ravi&#13;<br \/>\nNippani, <\/span>Associate Partner, Asia&#13;<br \/>\nPacific and the Middle East &amp; Africa for Human Capital solutions, Aon, said, &#8220;<span class=\"eop\">Singapore-based founders are increasingly using equity as a&#13;<br \/>\npreferred vehicle of compensation, to attract, retain and reward key talent. In&#13;<br \/>\nthese uncertain times, this also helps conserve much needed cash reserves. The&#13;<br \/>\nlower talent costs result in significant savings that can be deployed to&#13;<br \/>\nproduct development in the initial stages of the start-up.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><b>About&#13;<br \/>\nthe Study<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Aon&#8217;s 2021&#13;<br \/>\n<span class=\"normaltextrun\">Private Market Compensation <\/span>survey was conducted in collaboration with SGInnovate&#13;<br \/>\nand concluded in the first quarter of 2021. Start-ups of various sizes in Southeast&#13;<br \/>\nAsia participated in the survey. The first of its kind in the region, the study&#13;<br \/>\nsupports companies operating in highly competitive markets for talent by&#13;<br \/>\nproviding valuable insights on rewards practices within the start-up space. The&#13;<br \/>\nstudy covers information on key compensation elements \u2013 fixed pay, cash&#13;<br \/>\nincentives and equity awards \u2013 across an extensive collection of jobs focused&#13;<br \/>\nspecifically on the private market sector. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-16\/81992\/start-ups-in-singapore-pay-less-than-their-u-s-counterparts-aon\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The base salary at start-ups in&#13; Singapore is 12% lower than the U.S. across Managerial levels and 32% lower&#13; across Professional individual contributor roles. Start-ups pay 6% more at the&#13; Professional individual contributor level in comparison to all companies in the&#13; General industry as well as the broader Tech industry within Singapore. 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