Resident Households Income Trends
Since the 2013 edition of Key Household Income Trends, the Department of Statistics has omitted income figures that exclude employer CPF contributions. Hence, all data after 2012 includes employer CPF contributions.
Compare income groups - for example, check out the gap between the "81st - 90th" and the "91st - 100th" percentile!
- A decile group is one tenth of all households arranged by their incomes from minimum to maximum. The first decile group is the first one tenth (the 10% of all household with lowest incomes). The last decile is the one tenth of the households with the highest incomes.
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Source: Department of Statistics, Key Household Income Trends 2011-2014. Based on ranking of all resident employed households by their monthly household income from work / per household member. Figures in Singapore Dollars.
Inflation
Compare how income groups fare against inflation, as represented by the red line. Zoom in to a particular decile or year using the controls below:
Source: Department of Statistics, Key Household Income Trends 2011-2014. Based on ranking of all resident employed households by their monthly household income from work / per household member. Figures in Singapore Dollars.
Notes
- Resident households refer to households headed by Singapore citizens or permanent residents. For statistical purposes, a household refers to a group of persons living in the same dwelling unit and sharing common living arrangements. A household may comprise related or unrelated members.
- There were 1.2 million resident households in 2014. Out of which, there were 1.07 million households with at least one working person (resident employed households). Hence, each income decile has about 107,000 households.
- The proportion of resident households with at least one working person (i.e resident employed households) increased from 90 per cent in 2010 to 91 per cent in 2011.
- Household income from work refers to the sum of income received by all working members of the household from employment and business but excludes the income of maids.
- Household income from work per household member refers to the household income from work divided by the total number of members in the household. For example, if only one person in a household of four is working, his income is divided by four to derive the average income per household member.