Largest workforce
624,300
professionals
Jun 2025 (reference month)
Southeast Asia / Singapore
Singapore's labour market.
Employment grew 1.5% from Jun 2024 to Jun 2025. Unemployment was 2.0% in Aug 2026.
- Employment reference
- Jun 2025
- Vacancy period
- Apr to Jun 2026 (Q2)
- Resignation period
- Apr to Jun 2026 (Q2)
- Occupation data checked
- 12 Oct 2026
- Employed
- 3.97M
- Employment change
- +1.5%
- Unemployment
- 2.0%
- Median income
- SGD 5,775
Jun 2025
Jun 2024 to Jun 2025
Aug 2026 · Overall, seasonally adjusted
Est. USD $4,522
Mid-year 2025 · monthly
FX 30 Sept 2026
Employment is the total number of employed people aged 15 and over at end-June. Income is for full-time employed residents and includes employer CPF contributions.
Singapore detail
Employment by occupation
Bigger tiles represent more employed residents. Switch the signal to compare growth, hiring demand, or resignation churn.
Source period: Jun 2024 to Jun 2025. Released 27 Mar 2026.
Occupation treemap for Singapore. Tile size represents employed residents and color represents the selected growth signal. A ranked text view is available after the chart.
Singapore market mapGrowth
Service & sales workers / 2.8%Growth signal
CoolingAccelerating
Bigger tiles mean more employed residents. Hover or tap a tile for its exact value.
What stands out
Latest value within each official series
Fastest growth
2.8%
service and sales workers
Jun 2024 to Jun 2025
Highest vacancy rate
3.1%
professionals, managers, executives and technicians
Apr to Jun 2026 (Q2)
Highest resignation rate
1.4%
clerical, sales and services workers
Apr to Jun 2026 (Q2)
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Employment
Jun 2025 (reference month)
- professionals624,300
- associate professionals and technicians495,500
- managers & administrators (including working proprietors)405,800
- service and sales workers247,000
- clerical support workers201,000
- cleaners, labourers and related workers167,700
Growth
Jun 2024 to Jun 2025
- service and sales workers2.8%
- associate professionals and technicians2.2%
- cleaners, labourers and related workers1.2%
- professionals0.7%
- plant and machine operators and assemblers0.4%
- managers & administrators (including working proprietors)0.2%
Demand
Apr to Jun 2026 (Q2)
- professionals, managers, executives and technicians3.1%
- professionals, managers and executives3.0%
- clerical, sales and services workers2.9%
- non-professionals, managers and executives2.8%
- production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers2.4%
Churn
Apr to Jun 2026 (Q2)
- clerical, sales and services workers1.4%
- production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers1.1%
- professionals, managers, executives and technicians0.8%
Employment is a June annual reference. Demand and churn use the latest published quarter, so their dates are intentionally shown separately.
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