Top 100 jobs in Singapore

Ministry of Manpower has released the latest Report on Wages in Singapore 2005. It's a compilation of surveyed data collected in 2005, and released this year (2006).

Notably, the jobs with the top median starting salaries are: advocate and solicitor ($3,800), semi-conductor engineer ($3,595), financial analyst ($3,167), electronic engineer ($2,850), and aeronautical engineer ($2,600).

Based on the same report, the following are the top 100 jobs in terms of gross monthly pay. The number next to each job is the 75th-percentile gross monthly income for that job.

- Specialised surgeon $22,821
- Managing director $20,289
- General manager $15,300
- General physician $14,653
- Company director $13,970
- Legal officer $10,408
- Risk management manager $10,350
- Treasury manager $10,155
- Financial analyst $10,033
- Commodities futures broker $10,000
- Financial planner $9,167
- Business management consultant $9,039
- Foreign exchange dealer and broker $9,000
- Hydrographic surveyor $8,900
- Industrial relations manager $8,870
- Operations manager (Finance) $8,763
- Business development manager $8,350
- Trade broker $8,334
- Computer operations and network manager $8,223
- Operations manager (Commerce) $8,129
- Legal service manager $8,080
- Computer and information systems manager $8,075
- Research and development manager $7,808
- Budgeting and financial accounting manager $7,800
- Marine superintendent engineer $7,650
- Engineering manager $7,521
- Training manager $7,500
- Manufacturing plant and production manager $7,450
- Marketing manager $7,327
- Personnel / human resource manager $7,300
- Logistics manager $7,150
- Technical manager $7,064
- Sales manager $6,918
- Quality assurance manager $6,880
- Instrumentation engineer $6,817
- Statistician $6,707
- Chemical engineer (petroleum) $6,670
- Business analyst $6,667
- Procurement manager $6,637
- Advocate and solicitor $6,500
- Advertising and public relations manager $6,495
- Corporate planning manager $6,488
- Shipping manager $6,440
- Industrial health, safety and environment engineer $6,355
- Personal banker $6,350
- Premises maintenance manager $6,300
- Transport operations manager $6,250
- Chemical engineering technician (petroleum) $6,245
- Editor (newspapers and periodicals) $6,210
- Pharmacologist $6,085
- Credit analyst $6,084
- Chemical engineer (petrochemicals) $6,038
- Advertising copywriter $6,000
- Securities dealer and broker $6,000
- Database administrator $5,996
- Sports coach $5,965
- Administration manager $5,890
- Editor (radio, television and video) $5,843
- Geophysicist $5,831
- Customer service manager $5,750
- Power generation and distribution engineer $5,695
- Market research analyst $5,521
- Marine superintendent (deck) $5,450
- Chemical engineer $5,432
- Building architect $5,425
- Operations manager (Community) $5,406
- Petroleum and natural gas engineer $5,379
- Instrumentation technician $5,351
- Aeronautical engineer $5,334
- Building and construction project manager $5,300
- Semi-conductor engineer $5,293
- Structural engineer $5,270
- Cad cam engineer $5,202
- Financial futures dealer and broker $5,145
- Naval architect $5,143
- Creative director (Advertising) $5,000
- Director (stage, film, television and radio) $5,000
- Lawyer (except advocate and solicitor) $5,000
- Systems designer and analyst $4,997
- Ship-master $4,945
- Property / estate manager $4,936
- Production engineer $4,931
- Biomedical engineer $4,928
- Telecommunications service supervisor $4,911
- Electrical engineer $4,873
- Mechanical engineer $4,820
- Industrial nurse $4,802
- Sewerage and sanitary engineer $4,790
- Warehousing manager $4,789
- Medical x-ray technician $4,732
- Air transport service supervisor $4,713
- Network systems and data communication analyst $4,685
- Information technology security specialist $4,679
- Chemist $4,658
- Environment health inspector $4,605
- Civil engineer $4,578
- Manufacturing engineer $4,568
- Electronics engineer $4,534
- Materials engineer $4,524
- Accountant $4,500

Note that "monthly gross salary/wage" refers to:

the sum of the basic wage, overtime payments, commissions, allowances, service points and other regular cash payments. However, it excludes employer's CPF contributions, bonuses, stock options, other lump sum payments and payments-in-kind.

http://www.salary.sg/2006/top-100-jobs-in-singapore/

Financial analyst perhaps?

what about pilots ? their pay seems to be quite high when it was published in the papers.

George,

I scanned through the survey report again. It says "the survey was conducted to obtain wage statistics of common
occupations."

So, apparently, airline pilots and captains are not "common" occupations.

But I agree with you - pilots are highly paid. See http://www.salary.sg/2007/sq-pilots-pay/

Good and interesting article.

But if I not wrong, this statistic figures only refer to specifically common jobs title, in details not mention other influence factor like years of working experience or what kind of company and industry specific. Example: salary earnings for job title "engineer" definitely different between fresh grads and person with 10 yrs exp. Or same job title in "big" company can be slightly / much different compare to "small / medium company". Which I can assume, it's more on "highest possibly pay you can get based on job title" ???

How about pay for the software engineers ?

hi vselvam, check out the other posts: http://www.salary.sg/2007/it-jobs/ and
http://www.salary.sg/2007/it-salary-benchmarks/

Where's Auditor

Hi Hz, according to the survey data, the Auditor profession has a 75th-percentile income of only $3,350, which is not even close to the top 100.

bonus in different sectors varies from 1 month to as much as 12 months, so looking at monthly salary alone is not conclusive , i believe annual income will be better measurement.