Singapore top venue for expats seeking better career, pay and life: Poll

For the second year in a row, Singapore has taken the top spot in HSBC's Expat Explorer country league table, while Switzerland offers the best wages and Sweden is the best for families. 

New Zealand and Canada followed close behind, taking second and third place, respectively, in the overall Expat Explorer country league table.

Turkey ranked 39th on the 45-country list by taking the highest score in the experience criterion, where it ranked 18th. 

Now in its ninth year, Expat Explorer is the largest and one of the longest running surveys of expats, with 26,871 respondents sharing their views on life abroad including careers, financial wellbeing, quality of life and ease of settling for children. 

Expatriates in Singapore enjoy some of the world's best financial rewards and career opportunities, while benefiting from an excellent quality of life and a safe, family-friendly environment, according to the survey. 

More than three in five expats in Singapore said it was a good place to progress their career, with the same proportion seeing their earnings rise after moving to the country (compared with 43 percent and 42 percent, respectively, of expats globally). 

The average annual income for expats in Singapore is $139,000 (compared with $97,000 across the world), while nearly a quarter (23 percent) earn more than $200,000 (more than twice the global expat average of 11 percent).

Overall, 66 percent of expats agreed that Singapore offers a better quality of life than their home country (compared to 52 percent of expats globally), while three-quarters (75 percent) said the quality of education in Singapore is better than at home, the highest proportion in the world (global average 43 percent). 
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