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Median Gross Monthly Income From Employment of Full-Time Employed Residents (Total)

Data from Jan 2001 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 27 Mar 2026, 16:46 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data pertain to full-time employed residents excluding full-time National Servicemen.
Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Data for 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the General Household Survey 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.
Before 2009, full-time employment refers to employment where the normal hours of work is at least 30 hours per week. From 2009 onwards, it refers to employment where the normal hours of work is at least 35 hours per week.
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 explorer

MedianGrossMonthlyIncomeFromEmploymentofFullTimeEmployedResidentsTotal.csv (24 rows, 444 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Median Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Including Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions) Numeric	Median Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions) Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2001	2387	2100
2002	2380	2083
2003	2410	2100
2004	2326	2100
2006	2449	2167
2007	2543	2333
2008	2897	2588
2009	2927	2600
2010	3000	2708
2011	3249	2925

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Median Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Including Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions)	median_income_incl_emp_cpf	Numeric	dollars	-
Median Gross Monthly Income From Employment (Excluding Employer / Platform Operator CPF Contributions)	median_income_excl_emp_cpf	Numeric	dollars	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9cd9c40f22a4e45cac8f8b9d895fd5ce"
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). Median Gross Monthly Income From Employment of Full-Time Employed Residents (Total) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 4, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9cd9c40f22a4e45cac8f8b9d895fd5ce/view

About this dataset

Contact

brian_pang@mom.gov.sg ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

14 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)