HCMC advised to attract, keep talent with market-driven salaries

Experts at the BioTechnology Center of HCMC. Photo by the center

HCMC has paid talented people including scientists very low salaries, which should be raised to at least VND120 million (US$5,100) a month, experts said.

In 2016, as part of a program to attract talent to public agencies on a trial basis, the Saigon Hi-Tech Park, now in Thu Duc City, invited four scientists including three foreigners and paid them VND50 million a month and provided them with accommodation.

Within three years they had helped the city build a flood warning system, set up the most modern and unique laboratory in the country and ink a $400,000-project with the Australian and Japanese governments, Ngo Vo Ke Thanh, director of the park's research and development center, said at a conference in HCMC on Saturday.

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