Median salary for S’pore tech workers rises to S$9,360. But where can those jobs be found?
- ID
- 34765
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 13 Oct 2026, 11:03 AM
- Fetched
- 13 Oct 2026, 4:28 PM
- Provider
- Vulcan Post
- Category
- malaysia-startup
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- https://vulcanpost.com/913789/singapore-tech-salaries-jobs/
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Summary
- Score
- 7.0
- Created
- 13 Oct 2026, 4:28 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_founders
What happened
Singapore's IMDA Digital Economy Report says tech salaries rose 14% since 2023 to over S$9,300 gross monthly including employer CPF, with more than half of Singapore's 222,000 tech workers earning S$100,000 per year or more. The digital sector's value added grew over 45% since 2021 to S$144 billion, nearly one-fifth of Singapore's economy, while employment rose by nearly 30,000 including 8,200 in 2025. Most of those new jobs were outside the tech sector: only 1,700 of the 8,200 added in 2025 were in the Information & Communications sector, leaving 6,500 in other industries, and two-thirds of Singapore's digital economy jobs sit outside tech businesses.
Why it matters
For developers and SaaS/startup founders in Southeast Asia, this sets a concrete Singapore salary benchmark: S$9,360 median gross monthly including employer CPF, and 6,500 of 8,200 new 2025 tech roles were outside the I&C sector. If you are hiring, expect to compete with non-tech industries for talent; if you are job-hunting or benchmarking remote/cross-border pay, look beyond tech companies because most digital jobs are not in them.
Discussion angle
If two-thirds of Singapore's digital jobs are outside the tech sector and 6,500 of 8,200 new 2025 roles were outside I&C, should SEA builders target non-tech employers for stability, or does that make it harder for startups to compete on salary?