The median full-time worker in Singapore earned $5,775 a month in 2025, including employer CPF (about $5,000 excluding it). That’s the midpoint — half of full-time residents earn more, half earn less. Below is the full picture from official MOM and SingStat data: pay by age and sex, household income, and how fast pay is growing — so you can see exactly where you stand.
💰 The median salary: $5,775 a month
Singapore’s headline pay figure is the median gross monthly income from work of full-time employed residents, measured by the Ministry of Manpower each June. For 2025 it was $5,775 including employer CPF, up from $5,500 in 2024. MOM also publishes the figure excluding employer CPF, which is lower — about $5,000 in 2025 — so always check which basis a number is quoted on.
“Gross” means before your own CPF and income tax come out, and it includes overtime, commissions, allowances and one-twelfth of any annual bonus. So your take-home is less than the headline figure — you can see your own with the take-home pay calculator.
👥 Men vs women
Across all full-time resident workers in 2025, the median was $6,000 for men and $5,460 for women (including employer CPF). But the gap flips with age — as the table below shows, women in their late twenties actually out-earn men, while men pull ahead in the higher-earning forties.
📈 Median pay by age and sex
Pay rises steeply through your twenties and thirties, peaks around the early forties, and tapers after. Here is the median gross monthly income (including employer CPF) for each age group in 2025:
| Age group | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| 15-19 | $1,872 | $1,919 |
| 20-24 | $3,000 | $3,452 |
| 25-29 | $4,680 | $5,070 |
| 30-34 | $6,338 | $6,235 |
| 35-39 | $7,859 | $6,825 |
| 40-44 | $8,580 | $7,020 |
| 45-49 | $8,532 | $6,928 |
| 50-54 | $7,508 | $6,084 |
| 55-59 | $5,544 | $4,547 |
| 60+ | $3,358 | $2,940 |
Median gross monthly income from work, including employer CPF, full-time employed residents, June 2025. Source: MOM Comprehensive Labour Force Survey.
🏠 Household income
At the household level, the median resident employed household earned $12,027 a month from work in 2025 (including employer CPF), or about $3,909 per household member once you divide by everyone living there. Household figures are higher than individual ones because most households have more than one earner.
📊 How fast is pay growing?
Median pay rose 5% over the year (2024 to 2025), or 4.1% after adjusting for inflation — so real spending power genuinely improved. Lower earners kept pace: income at the 20th percentile grew 4.6% in nominal terms. Over the longer run, MOM reports real income growth has averaged roughly 2% a year over the past decade.
🎯 So where do you stand?
Compare your own salary in the income percentile calculator — it shows how you rank against others your age and sex, and an estimated overall percentile. One honest caveat: Singapore only officially publishes two points of the individual pay distribution — the median and the 20th percentile — so the calculator estimates the rest by fitting a standard income-distribution curve to those official anchors. The median and age comparisons are exact published figures; the percentile is a principled estimate, not an official rank.
📋 Sources & method
All figures are official. Individual income is from the MOM Comprehensive Labour Force Survey (“Labour Force in Singapore 2025”) — gross monthly income from work of full-time employed residents, measured in June, including employer CPF. Household income is from SingStat (Key Indicators on Household Employment Income, table M810361), 2025 figures, income from work including employer CPF. 2025 household figures are preliminary. Definitions matter: a different SingStat headline (“market income, all resident households”) gives a higher number because it adds rental and investment income — this report uses the income-from-work measure throughout.