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

Occupational Wages by Industry

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Occupational Wages by Industry

Data from Jan 2022 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:28 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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OccupationalWagesbyIndustry.csv (833 rows, 76.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Occ Desc Text	Ind 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% manufacturing14.2% wholesale & retail trade12.5% professional svcs11.3% transport & storage10.4%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	accommodation & food svcs	9000	5000	2600	8300	5000	2500
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	administrative & support svcs	12000	7050	4000	10000	6000	4000
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	art, entertainment, recreation & other svcs	10824	8224	6150	9600	8138	6000
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	construction	12900	8000	4500	12000	7600	4500
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	education, health & social svcs	16000	10000	6000	16000	10000	6000
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	financial & insurance svcs	36000	26095	14400	36000	20419	13250
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	information & communications	20000	19000	10700	20000	18000	10500
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	manufacturing	15781	8000	4200	15000	7737	4000
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	professional svcs	20000	16000	8000	20000	15200	7150
2022	managing director/chief executive officer	real estate svcs	15365	8000	6000	15365	7861	5700

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Occ Desc	occ_desc	Text	-	-
Ind	ind	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_ec5d0e4ebdd2baee2a5aa1322a3156a5"
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. (2019). Occupational Wages by Industry (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ec5d0e4ebdd2baee2a5aa1322a3156a5/view

About this dataset

Contact

lee_wan_ning@mom.gov.sg

Created on

29 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)