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Median, 25th and 75th Percentiles of Monthly Basic and Gross Wages of Common Occupations by Industry

Occupational Wages

Economy

Occupational Wages

Data from Jan 2022 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:22 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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OccupationalWages.csv (334 rows, 22.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Occ desc Text	Mthly gross wage 75 pctile (Dollars) Numeric	Mthly gross wage 50 pctile (Dollars) Numeric	Mthly gross wage 25 pctile (Dollars) Numeric	Mthly basic wage 75 pctile (Dollars) Numeric	Mthly basic wage 50 pctile (Dollars) Numeric	Mthly basic wage 25 pctile (Dollars) Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2022100.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	15300	9500	5562	14905	8840	5350
2022	chief operating officer/general manager	16550	10890	6170	14617	9519	6000
2022	budgeting and financial accounting manager (including financial controller)	12863	8400	5810	11300	7512	5323
2022	administration manager	10000	7034	4300	9713	6590	4100
2022	audit manager	11056	8420	6265	10883	8205	6023
2022	human resource manager	12139	7807	5182	10545	7000	4360
2022	policy manager	13644	9748	6450	12020	8000	6000
2022	strategic planning manager	19318	12962	8511	18000	11900	8094
2022	risk management manager	17732	12582	8660	17583	12385	8164
2022	premises and facilities maintenance manager (excluding building security manager)	9300	6520	4972	8232	5685	4500

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Occ desc	occ_desc	Text	-	-
Mthly gross wage 75 pctile (Dollars)	mthly_gross_wage_75_pctile	Numeric	-	-
Mthly gross wage 50 pctile (Dollars)	mthly_gross_wage_50_pctile	Numeric	-	-
Mthly gross wage 25 pctile (Dollars)	mthly_gross_wage_25_pctile	Numeric	-	-
Mthly basic wage 75 pctile (Dollars)	mthly_basic_wage_75_pctile	Numeric	-	-
Mthly basic wage 50 pctile (Dollars)	mthly_basic_wage_50_pctile	Numeric	-	-
Mthly basic wage 25 pctile (Dollars)	mthly_basic_wage_25_pctile	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6570c8bcc41ace6c00d9ab86fcd9aea5"
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. (2022). Occupational Wages (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 4, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6570c8bcc41ace6c00d9ab86fcd9aea5/view

About this dataset

Contact

lee_wan_ning@mom.gov.sg

Created on

14 Feb 2022

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)