I had worked as a HR for 6 years and currently taking my degree, but seems like HR is not earning much compared to other majors.

Currently I’m only drawing 3k+ while working as an HR for so long, we had offered fresh grads in other majors like shipping or engineering starting with 4k onwards.

It seems hard to change career now since my experiences are all in HR as well. But I enjoyed my job as an HR but just felt that HRs are so underpaid and overworked.

Netizens’ comments

I believe HR remuneration is pegged to the talents hired and their performances, successful hires for senior or management roles pay more. Likewise, you might want to consider going to recruitment firms like Michael Page or being a human resource business partner (HRBP) to larger organizations

If HR can negotiate others ppl pay, why can’t negotiate own pay?

You might consider going into Hybrid HR where opportunities to expand and grow could be possibly more hence increasing the renumeration

Since everyone is bashing HR I’ll say something else though just in case you don’t know, HR is the enemy of every employee. Always trying to lowball and pull our already miserable pay down and wasting our time with their own initiatives and courses that we have to take.Anyway you will realize not all industries pay well. There’s a reason why some uni courses have AAA entry will some have CCC. Alot of it is due to the future job prospects and salary. At the end of the day my advice is to stop comparing if not you will never be satisfied and to also enjoy what you do.

U dont see the bigger picture. Here in singapore hr are so toxic, being so company focused instead of people focused. In the end, it goes round spoiling the whole eco system making it swing towards company instead of people. When this becomes the norm, u hr guys suffer as well. Think how u would wan ur kids workforce life in future will be. Make company understand people are the very reason why companies exist.