Singapore
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
Pending live-verification. The source URLs have not yet been fetched and archived in this round; the city will return to a HIGH classification once that is done. Original rationale: Singapore Platform Workers Act 2024 effective 1 January 2025 (verified at mom.gov.sg): mandatory CPF contributions (3.5% → 7% operator share Jan 2026, full alignment by 2030), mandatory work injury compensation insurance, three legally-recognized Platform Work Associations (NPHVA, NTA, NDCA) granted full NTUC affiliate status 2025. Cross-corroborated by superbikesg.com Aug 2025: avg S$15/hr. S$15 × 0.74 = $11.10 (close to $11.80).
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Singapore MOM Progressive Wage Model page
What would you take home in Singapore?
Take-home, weekly
$293
Take-home, monthly
$1,269
Gross, weekly
$354
Gross, monthly
$1,534
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $1944/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (153% of monthly net).
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
That works out to roughly 46 hours per week. Rent at $1,944 per month is 95 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Singapore delivery driver in HUD's “severely cost-burdened” band by the federal definition (over 30 percent of gross income on housing). Measured against net take-home pay, which is what a worker actually has available to spend, the same rent is 115 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $610 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Singapore ranks 30th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
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