Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions), Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

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Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions), Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data exclude full-time National Servicemen.
Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Gross monthly income from employment refers to income earned from employment. For employees, it refers to the gross monthly wages or salaries before deduction of employee CPF contributions and personal income tax. It comprises basic wages, overtime pay, commissions, tips, other allowances and one-twelfth of annual bonuses. For self-employed persons, gross monthly income refers to the average monthly profits from their business, trade or profession (i.e. total receipts less business expenses incurred) before deduction of income tax and platform workers’ share of CPF contributions.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Data from 2010 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (27 Mar 2026)

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EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyGrossMonthlyIncomeFromEmploymentExcludingEmployerPlatformOperatorCPFContributionsHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (3.1K rows, 166.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions) Text	Highest Qualification Attained Text	Employed Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20106.3% 20116.3% 20126.3% 20136.3%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% Under $5006.3% $500 to $9996.3% $1,000 to $1,4996.3% $1,500 to $1,9996.3%	(Null)0.0% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0% 1004.2% 2002.8% 4002.0% 6002.0%
2010	male	Under $500	primary and below	5500
2010	male	Under $500	lower secondary	2400
2010	male	Under $500	secondary	4900
2010	male	Under $500	post-secondary (non-tertiary)	2300
2010	male	Under $500	diploma and professional qualification	1400
2010	male	Under $500	degree	1100
2010	male	$500 to $999	primary and below	32900
2010	male	$500 to $999	lower secondary	14300
2010	male	$500 to $999	secondary	14200
2010	male	$500 to $999	post-secondary (non-tertiary)	8000

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions)	gross_monthly_income_excl_emr_cpf	Text	-	-
Highest Qualification Attained	highest_qualification	Text	-	-
Employed	employed	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_156f700d7c7b3e8ca5d4c1771b15110a"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions), Highest Qualification Attained And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_156f700d7c7b3e8ca5d4c1771b15110a/view

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EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyGrossMonthlyIncomeFromEmploymentExcludingEmployerPlatformOperatorCPFContributionsHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (3.1K rows, 166.6 KB)

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