Average Weekly Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee (of All Employees / of Employees who Worked Overtime) By Industry - Annual | MOM

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Average Weekly Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee (of All Employees / of Employees who Worked Overtime) By Industry - Annual

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Paid Overtime Hours Worked is the number of hours worked by an employee in excess of the standard hours for which the employee was paid. It excludes overtime hours worked for which "time-off" was granted instead of wage payment. Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM Before 2006, data pertain to private sector establishments (each with at least 25 employees). From 2006 onwards, it also includes the public sector.

Data from 1998 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

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AverageWeeklyOvertimeHoursWorkedPerEmployeeofAllEmployeesofEmployeeswhoWorkedOvertimeByIndustryAnnual.csv (1.2K rows, 48.9 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Industry Text	Overtime Of All Employees Text	Overtime Of Employees Who Worked Overtime Text
(Null)0.0% 20003.7% 20013.7% 20023.7% 20033.7%	(Null)0.0% others2.4% construction2.4% retail trade2.4% manufacturing2.4%	(Null)0.1% 0.54.5% 0.24.4% 1.83.8% 0.43.2%	(Null)0.0% 5.22.0% 7.61.7% 5.41.6% 7.91.6%
1998	manufacturing	5.7	10.4
1998	food, beverages and tobacco	2.6	7.6
1998	textile and wearing apparel	6.1	10.2
1998	paper products and publishing	6.2	10.6
1998	petroleum and chemical products	3.2	7.9
1998	rubber and plastic products	5.6	9.7
1998	fabricated metal products	7.4	11.9
1998	machinery and equipment	7.1	11.5
1998	electrical products	5	9.1
1998	electronic products	4.1	8.2

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Industry	industry	Text	-	-
Overtime Of All Employees	overtime_of_all_employees	Text	hour	-
Overtime Of Employees Who Worked Overtime	overtime_of_employees_who_worked_overtime	Text	hour	-

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dataset_id = "d_c791286727ba26c82dec0d485898f938"
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). Average Weekly Overtime Hours Worked Per Employee (of All Employees / of Employees who Worked Overtime) By Industry - Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c791286727ba26c82dec0d485898f938/view

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