If you've ever wanted to work at the Istana, now might be your chance.

The official residence and office of the President of Singapore has put up a job advertisement on the Careers @ Gov portal.

The opening? A butler position.

Responsibilities

Under the title "Assistant Senior Butler/ Butler", the advert says that the responsibilities include providing hospitality services, along with food and beverages to guests at the Istana.

Butlers will also have to perform housekeeping duties such as readying the Istana for events, setting up ceremonial props or tables, and helping in various places such as the kitchen, linen room or floral arrangement room.

There is even an opportunity for applicants with relevant past working experience to be appointed at a higher level, leading a team of butlers and performing other administrative and logistical duties.

In order to apply, applicants must be Singapore citizens, and if successful, will be offered a one or two year contract in the first instance.

Angst over the salary

The job advertisement made it onto the HardwareZone forums where the advertised gross monthly salary of S$1,400 to S$2,000 caught the eye of some forum users.

Forum contributors seemed to think lowly of the pay package leaving comments such as:

Still, at least one netizen could see the perks of working at the Istana:

Having said that, that seems to be the range of salary offered for housekeeping jobs in Singapore.

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