These are S’pore’s best-paying industries, where 1 in 3 local professionals earn S$10,000+ per month
- ID
- 29192
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 28 Sep 2026, 9:19 AM
- Fetched
- 28 Sep 2026, 10:14 AM
- Provider
- Vulcan Post
- Category
- malaysia-startup
- Original URL
- https://vulcanpost.com/913520/singapores-best-paying-industries-2026/
- Source URL
- https://vulcanpost.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 2.5
- Created
- 28 Sep 2026, 10:14 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- startup_founders
What happened
Vulcan Post walks through Singapore Ministry of Manpower data on the 65th-percentile earnings of local PMETs (Professionals, Managers, Executives, Technicians) — the 'top 35%' bracket — noting that roughly 1 in 3 local professionals earn S$10,000+ per month. The piece says Finance, ICT and Public Administration pay five-figure monthly salaries even to 30-somethings, while Insurance, Professional Services, Air & Sea Transport, Utilities, Trade, Manufacturing and Education also pay well, and F&B, Accommodation and Retail lag. The underlying figures are COMPASS C1 salary benchmarks for 2027, and the article states they are cut-off figures that include overtime, bonus payments and CPF.
Why it matters
The only decision-relevant detail in the text is the composition of the number: these are cut-off 65th-percentile figures that include overtime, bonus and CPF, so a Malaysian founder or hiring manager benchmarking a Singapore offer against 'S$10,000+/month' would overstate base pay. The article does not publish industry-level salary figures in the text, so it cannot be used to set a specific number for a specific role — you would need the source COMPASS C1 tables themselves.
Discussion angle
Worth 5 minutes at most: is anyone here benchmarking Singapore offers, and if so are you pulling the actual COMPASS C1 tables rather than the headline '1 in 3 earn S$10K+' framing, given those figures include overtime, bonus and CPF?