Singapore salaries: a compact market with 76 covered careers
Singapore is a smaller covered map — 1 cities and 76 careers — so national figures and metro figures often sit closer together. Surgeon still leads at $601,000; use city pages when you have an offer location.
Singaporean pay on this site is built from national medians (when a source covers the occupation) plus observed metro percentiles where OfficialSalary has city data. 12 high-intent city salary pages for Singapore are featured below with full analysis. The coverage mix is 20 technology, 15 healthcare, 15 finance & business, and 8 engineering — not every occupation in Singapore, only roles with real source figures.
Singapore is the largest metro in this Singapore set (5,638,700 population in the dataset), with a pay index of 0.70 and COL 100. It is also among the priciest covered cities, so a national median that looks generous can still feel tight after housing. Employment Pass criteria and COMPASS scoring are independent of this cash sort.
The top covered median (Surgeon at $601,000) is about 4.8× Singapore GDP per capita (2025). Unemployment was about 2.8% in 2025 — that shapes hiring odds more than it rewrites national medians. Across the full career set the cash spread from Surgeon to Registered Nurse ($77,700) is about 673%.
Consumer-price inflation of about 0.9% in 2025 in Singapore means raises and old offers need an inflation check, not only a peer-median check. Singapore lists about 11 public holidays in 2026 — time off is part of compensation and is not in the cash tables. Figures are gross averages for research; run take-home and cost-of-living tools before treating a number as spendable.
How to use this Singapore salary report
Pick the occupation first — Surgeon, Radiologist, and Psychiatrist are not interchangeable day jobs even when they sit near the top of the cash list. Open the national page for the p10–p90 sketch, then a city page if your offer names a metro. Observed city pages show surveyed percentiles; modeled pages (when labelled) only scale the national median by a local pay index.
Then convert gross to something closer to reality: simplified national tax, rent you would actually accept, and whether bonus or overtime is in the median. The highest-paying jobs list for Singapore is a cash sort of the same dataset — useful for orientation, not a career menu.
What sits at the top of Singaporean pay
Surgeon: Surgeons perform operations to treat injuries, diseases, and deformities. National median: $601,000. Surgeon sits at the top of the Singapore cash list ($601,000) because scarce clinical training and liability are priced into compensation more aggressively than most office occupations.
Radiologist follows at $599,000; Psychiatrist at $526,000. The midpoint of the covered list is Data Analyst at $179,000 — a better “typical well-paid career” sketch than row #1 alone.
Cities vs national averages in Singapore
With a smaller city set in Singapore, national and local figures often sit closer together. Still open the city page for COL context before comparing two offers in different places.