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Total Wage Change

Total Wage Change by Industry

Economy

Total Wage Change by Industry

Data from Jan 2001 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:08 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Total Wages refers to the sum of basic wages and bonuses. Basic Wages refers to the basic pay before deduction of employee CPF contributions and personal income tax. It excludes employer CPF contributions, bonuses, overtime payments, commissions, allowances. Annual Variable Component usually consists of two components i.e. Annual Wage Supplement (also known as 13th month) and variable bonus.

Twc by Year

Data explorer

TotalWageChangebyIndustry.csv (198 rows, 8.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Ind1
Text
Ind2
Text
Twc
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2000ManufacturingManufacturing5.6
2000ConstructionConstruction2.1
2000ServicesWholesale And Retail Trade5.8
2000ServicesTransportation And Storage7.6
2000ServicesAccommodation And Food Services5
2000ServicesInformation And Communications10.4
2000ServicesFinancial And Insurance Services11.6
2000ServicesReal Estate Services5.3
2000ServicesProfessional Services9
2000ServicesAdministrative And Support Services4.1

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Ind1ind1Text--
Ind2ind2Text--
TwctwcNumeric (Percentage)--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f6fc4ac7dd09814cc3e3c3202798ce33"
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). Total Wage Change by Industry (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 27, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f6fc4ac7dd09814cc3e3c3202798ce33/view

About this dataset

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Created on

07 Feb 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)