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CPF Contribution Rates, Allocation Rates and Applicable Wage Ceiling

Ordinary wage ceiling

Economy

Ordinary wage ceiling

Data from Jul 1955 to Jan 2026

Last updated: 21 Apr 2025, 15:55 SGT

CPF (Central Provident Fund Board)

Ordinary wage ceiling by Effective from

Data explorer

Ordinarywageceiling.csv (46 rows, 684 B)

Effective From Text	Ordinary Wage Ceiling Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1955-07	500
1968-09	2307.69
1970-01	1875
1971-01	1500
1972-07	1500
1973-07	1500
1974-07	1500
1975-07	2000
1977-07	2000
1978-07	3000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Effective From	effective_from	Text	-	-
Ordinary Wage Ceiling	ordinary_wage_ceiling	Text	-	-

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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_fcf9b47a2df0c9183875bbfb1c370077"
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.

Central Provident Fund Board. (2016). Ordinary wage ceiling (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_fcf9b47a2df0c9183875bbfb1c370077/view

About this dataset

Contact

CHONG_Wei_Bin@cpf.gov.sg Lilian_YONG@cpf.gov.sg

Created on

30 May 2016

Licence

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

Agency

CPF (Central Provident Fund Board)