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Economy

Average (Mean) Monthly Earnings Per Employee By Sex, Annual

Data from Jan 1998 to Dec 2022Updated 11 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source : Derived based on data from Central Provident Fund Board

Notes:

  1. Average (Mean) Monthly Earnings (AME) refers to all remuneration received before deduction of the employee Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions and personal income tax. It comprises basic wages, overtime pay, commissions, allowances and bonuses but exclude employer CPF contributions.
  2. Data cover full-time and part-time employees who have CPF contributions. They exclude identifiable self-employed persons who have made CPF contribution.
  3. Average (Mean) Monthly Earnings covers employees who contribute to the Central Provident Fund. Available quarterly, AME provides a timely rough gauge of average wage movement. However, the AME can be influenced by the changing mix of full-time and part-time workers and variations in overtime as the data are compiled based on the payroll of contributors to the CPF which do not allow for breakdown separately to full-timers and part-timers. Also, as AME pertains to mean earnings, it can be skewed upwards by a small number of very high income earners. For income of a typical worker, users should refer to the median Gross Monthly Income From Work and for wage growth of employees over a year they can refer to the Annual Wage Changes, both of which are available on MOM’s website.

Data explorer

AverageMeanMonthlyEarningsPerEmployeeBySexAnnual.csv (78 rows, 1.3 KB)

Year
Text
Sex
Text
Average monthly earnings
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
male33.3%
total33.3%
female33.3%
(Null)0.0%
1998total2740
1999total2813
2000total3063
2001total3134
2002total3158
2003total3213
2004total3329
2005total3444
2006total3554
2007total3773

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearText--
SexsexText--
Average monthly earningsaverage_monthly_earningsText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_16dfef0280cd2c09f95dcb52c6a7a006"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2019). Average (Mean) Monthly Earnings Per Employee By Sex, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_16dfef0280cd2c09f95dcb52c6a7a006/view

About this dataset

Contact

mok_jia_wen@mom.gov.sg

Created on

28 Jan 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)