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THE Government has made public data to show that Singaporeans benefited most from the employment boom, contrary to the belief of a few MPs and Internet chatter.
They show citizens landed a record number of the new jobs created in recent years.
The vast majority of the jobs they got went to professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs).
And most of these jobs pay a salary above the median income of $2,330 a month.
These are the findings of two new reports on the job market here in the past decade released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Friday.
Official figures show six in 10 of the new jobs last year went to foreigners, up from five in 10 in 2006.
But this has more to do with insufficient Singaporeans being available to fill the rising number of new vacancies, according to the report giving a breakdown of jobs held by citizens, Permanent Residents (PRs) and foreigners.
The breakdown, published for the first time, shows all three groups gained from the job boom. In 2006, Singaporeans who found jobs soared to an all-time high of 64,600.
But with employment at record highs and the resident unemployment rate in December 2006 at 3.6 per cent, their share of new jobs fell from 45 per cent in 2004 to 37 per cent in 2006.
More PRs are also working here, rising by 8.4 per cent between 1997 and 2006. This growth is the fastest among the three groups of workers.
This reflected the Government's 'success in attracting international talent to support economic growth', MOM said.
The second study lists the types of jobs Singaporeans filled in the 10-year period. It shows 95 per cent of new jobs they took up were for PMET positions.
The upsurge resulted in 45 per cent of Singaporeans holding PMET jobs last year, up from 39 per cent a decade ago.
On the other hand, the share of Singaporeans holding lower-paid jobs, such as production, clerical, sales and service, had dropped.
The report did not give data on the types of jobs foreigners hold.
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