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🇸🇬Singapore · High income · 2026-Q3

Singapore

53composite score · #17 of 50

MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified

MEDIUM, and the earlier 'pending live-verification, will return to HIGH once fetched' framing is withdrawn: the URLs have been fetched and the guarantee side verifies cleanly. mom.gov.sg's Platform Workers Act page (Last Updated 3 July 2026) enumerates exactly the protections this row claims and carries no minimum pay provision, and the CPF sub-page confirms the 1 January 2025 contribution duty verbatim. What does not verify is the pay figure: a commercial rider blog previously cited here for an average of S$15/hr has been dropped as a source, and the arithmetic built on it ('S$15 x 0.74 = $11.10, close to $11.80') did not reproduce the row's published S$15.95 / $12.35. No source publishes a Singapore rider hourly rate. Separately, the median wage this city is scored against is monthly-only on its cited page; see median_wage_sample.

Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$12.35/hr

Source: Singapore MOM Platform Workers Act CPF page (publishes no rider pay rate)

What would you take home in Singapore?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$371

Gross, monthly

$1,606

Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.

Cost of living vs. earnings

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)496 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$2081/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$11.62

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wagen/a
Median wage (all occupations)$20.41/hr

Notes

Singapore has no statutory minimum wage. Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center pending Round D1.

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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.

Primary earnings source: www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/platform-workers-act/cpf-contributions-for-platform-workers · archived