Singapore salary data: 200+ non-executive roles that pay S$10,000 per month or more

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British recruitment corporation, Michael Page, has released its annual salary guide for 2024, this time with even more detailed methodology comprising 280,000 data points from its own sources.

In total, the company has listed over 500 roles across 15 different professions, with their respective, average salaries—from the receptionist to the CEO—providing a comprehensive review of the employment situation in Singapore as of this year.

Disclaimer from Michael Page: “The data presented in this guide pertains to the full year of 2023 and specifically focuses on roles based in Singapore, incorporating salary projections for 2024. The limitations of this survey should be acknowledged. As we primarily utilise our own data, the reported salaries may be more reflective of our clientele than the broader market.”

Executive roles

We won’t be covering top executive roles in detail here, since they all fall in the same brackets across all industries, which start around S$200,000 per year for lower directorial and C-Level roles, up to around S$400,000 for CEOs and Presidents.

Besides that, if you’re in contention for the top positions in business, you’re probably not reading this right now anyway.

Our focus is on all the roles that most Singaporeans could aspire to which cross the attractive, round level of S$10,000 in monthly pay—or about 2x the national median.

For all other jobs, which fall below or considerably above (i.e. executive) this figure, you may head over to read the full Michael Page report, which is free to download.

So, how much can you make if you’re not a company head, director, or a C-Level officer? Let’s take a look below, starting with one of the larger category of jobs: finance, accounting and banking.

Accounting & Finance

Banking & Financial Services

Digital

Engineering & Manufacturing

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Human Resources

Legal

Marketing

Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, roles in marketing are some of the least well paid, with only three roles below the executive level crossing our S$10,000 level. Everybody else, sadly, falls below that.

Procurement & Supply Chain

Property & Construction

Sales

Secretarial & Business Support

It’s no secret that secretarial roles are not exactly the best paid and it finds confirmation here, with only one role qualifying under our criteria, and even it is here only because its area of focus is law.

Sustainability & ESG

Sustainability roles, however well regarded by modern corporations, do not exactly provide many opportunities to climb the ladder financially.

Technology

Finally, and unsurprisingly, the biggest standalone category of all: technology, where qualified talent can still find good pay.

Singapore, being the small and surprisingly restrictive labour market, is probably faring better than most other countries where waves of layoffs have released thousands of people looking for new employment at the same time, leading to a demonstrable glut and shortage of offers.

While the above figures are more specific to Michael Page rather than the entire market, they provide a good benchmark for those in the corporate world and are a useful reference for other companies (bearing in mind that pay in smaller businesses may be a bit worse).

Nevertheless, given the breadth of a total of 500+ different roles and 280,000 data points that the company cites, it should be more accurate than a typical survey, giving you a general idea of whether you fall below or above average—and what you can hope for going forward.

Good luck!

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