Crazy poor expats: Why salaries for foreigners are falling fast

Twenty-eight-year-old Kieran Hughes had high hopes when he decided to move to Singapore to be with his partner a year ago. In the United Kingdom, Hughes worked as a professional broadcast engineer earning an equivalent of $96,000 a year, enough to pay the mortgage and buy his own car there. With a strong professional background, he thought finding a job in Singapore with the same competitive pay would be easy.