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Economy

Occupational Wages by Sex

Data from May 2022 to Jun 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:51 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data explorer

OccupationalWagesbySex.csv (528 rows, 29.2 KB)

Year Text	Occ Desc Text	Sex Text	Mthly Gross Wage 50 Pctile (Dollars) Numeric	Mthly Basic Wage 50 Pctile (Dollars) Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2022100.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% males51.1% females48.9%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	females	8017	8000
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	males	9600	9500
2022	chief operating officer/general manager	females	9352	8500
2022	chief operating officer/general manager	males	12363	11340
2022	budgeting and financial accounting manager (including financial controller)	females	7800	7062
2022	budgeting and financial accounting manager (including financial controller)	males	10000	8611
2022	administration manager	females	6550	6159
2022	administration manager	males	8105	7630
2022	audit manager	females	8400	8212
2022	audit manager	males	8500	8205

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Text	-	-
Occ Desc	occ_desc	Text	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Mthly Gross Wage 50 Pctile (Dollars)	mthly_gross_wage_50_pctile	Numeric	-	-
Mthly Basic Wage 50 Pctile (Dollars)	mthly_basic_wage_50_pctile	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a0a2ee53ade228095be6b86cf1eb43df"
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). Occupational Wages by Sex (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a0a2ee53ade228095be6b86cf1eb43df/view

About this dataset

Contact

lee_wan_ning@mom.gov.sg

Created on

30 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)