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Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee By Industry, Annual

Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked per Employee by Industry (Level 3), Annual

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Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked per Employee by Industry (Level 3), Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 16:53 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Before 2006, the Labour Market Survey covers private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees. From 2006 onwards, the survey also covers the public sector.

Annual figures are the simple averages of the figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

Data are rounded to one decimal place.

Data may not be strictly comparable due to the various versions of SSIC coding.

Data explorer

AverageWeeklyPaidOvertimeHoursWorkedperEmployeebyIndustryLevel3Annual.csv (1K rows, 80.5 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Industry1
Text
Industry2
Text
Industry3
Text
Overtime Paid Hours
Text
(Null)0.0%
20003.3%
20013.3%
20023.3%
20033.3%
(Null)0.0%
services62.7%
manufacturing30.6%
others3.4%
construction3.4%
(Null)0.0%
community, social and personal services10.0%
transportation and storage7.3%
professional services7.2%
wholesale and retail trade6.7%
(Null)0.0%
others3.4%
construction3.4%
retail trade3.4%
wholesale trade3.4%
(Null)0.0%
0.53.5%
0.23.2%
1.83.1%
1.23.0%
1990manufacturingfood, beverages and tobaccofood, beverages and tobacco4.6
1990manufacturingtextile and wearing appareltextile and wearing apparel6.1
1990manufacturingpaper products and publishingpaper products and publishing6.7
1990manufacturingpetroleum and chemical productspetroleum and chemical products5.2
1990manufacturingrubber and plastic productsrubber and plastic products6.1
1990manufacturingfabricated metal productsfabricated metal products7.1
1990manufacturingmachinery and equipmentmachinery and equipment7.1
1990manufacturingelectrical productselectrical products4.7
1990manufacturingelectronic productselectronic products5.1
1990manufacturingmedical and precision instrumentsmedical and precision instruments3.9

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Industry1industry1Text--
Industry2industry2Text--
Industry3industry3Text--
Overtime Paid Hoursovertime_paid_hoursText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_38d3ab7bd7481cea5b271a6f487932a3"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Manpower. (2016). Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked per Employee by Industry (Level 3), Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_38d3ab7bd7481cea5b271a6f487932a3/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

24 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)