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

Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee-Topline

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Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee-Topline

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 14:01 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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

Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked per Employee refers to the number of hours worked by an employee in excess of the standard hours for which the employees were paid. It excludes overtime hours worked for which "time-off" was granted instead of wage payment.

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.

Data are rounded to one decimal place.

Overtime paid hours by Quarter

Data explorer

AverageWeeklyPaidOvertimeHoursWorkedPerEmployeeTopline.csv (140 rows, 1.8 KB)

Quarter
Quarter (Q)
Overtime Paid Hours
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1990-Q14.3
1990-Q24.6
1990-Q34.4
1990-Q44.1
1991-Q14.2
1991-Q24.5
1991-Q34.3
1991-Q44.1
1992-Q14.1
1992-Q24.6

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterQuarter (Q)--
Overtime Paid Hoursovertime_paid_hoursText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_86016096953d6e52a25dc5b4810b83d5"
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. (2016). Average Weekly Paid Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee-Topline (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_86016096953d6e52a25dc5b4810b83d5/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)