Where your household ranks in Singapore

Where your household ranks

Start from a common case

First earner

Monthly pay, before CPF

AWS and bonus, months

Age

Employer CPF

Second earner (leave pay at 0 if none)

Monthly pay, before CPF

AWS and bonus, months

Age

Employer CPF

Other income a month

Another earner’s pay, rent, interest, dividends, a pension or allowance from family.

People in your household

Everyone living and eating together, children too. Leave out live-in domestic workers.

Your household earns more than about

55%

of Singapore’s resident households

Counts S$13,943 a month: S$11,917 pay with bonus spread over 12 months, S$2,026 employer CPF. That’s income before tax, as SingStat counts it.

Measure	Yours	Median	You’re ahead of
Household income	S$13,943	S$12,446	About 55%
Per person, 3 people	S$4,648	S$4,160	About 55%
Pay only, no employer CPF	S$11,917	S$10,591	About 56%

SingStat’s figures are for 2025, so pay from this year may rank slightly high. The last row compares households with someone working.

S$1,610 more a month would reach the 60th percentile, S$15,553.

Households like yours: on income per person you’re in group 6 of 10. Households in that group average 3.4 people and 2.0 workers. 34% have a car and 82% live in an HDB flat. Per person, they receive about S$6,104 a year in government transfers and pay about S$3,855 in tax.

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Data: Department of Statistics Singapore, checked 13 Nov 2026. Full table and method on Numbers.sg