Senior Cook (E.G. Station Chef, Commis Cook 1, Station Cook) salary in Singapore
$41,100SGD/YR
Senior Cook (E.G. Station Chef, Commis Cook 1, Station Cook) in Singapore earns a median of $41,100 a year, about $20.80 an hour.
SOURCE·Singapore Ministry of Manpower — Occupational Wage Survey·Singapore Open Data Licence·REVIEWED JUN 2024
What $41,100 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Singapore and it converts to $31,796. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $40,144 buys in the United States. Those are two answers to two different questions, and the distance between them is the thing worth reading — here it is a factor of 1.26.
At the exchange rate At local prices The disagreement
The hollow marker is the exchange-rate reading: what the money is worth if it leaves. The solid marker is the purchasing-power reading: what it is worth if it stays. The hatched span between them is the disagreement, and it is what every single-country salary site leaves out.
SOURCE·European Central Bank reference rates (via Frankfurter) and World Bank PPP conversion factor PA.NUS.PRVT.PP·FX 2026-07-29·REVIEWED PPP 2025
How Singapore arrived at this figure, and what it is not
- Singapore Ministry of Manpower publishes Occupational Wage Survey for the reference period JUN 2024. We take the occupation row as released and change nothing in it.
- Full-time resident employees, private establishments with 25+ staff
- Where the agency publishes a distribution we carry the whole distribution, because a single average throws away the part of the answer people are actually asking about.
- The wage is then read twice: converted at the European Central Bank reference rate for 2026-07-29, and divided by the World Bank purchasing-power conversion factor for SGP. Both readings are printed; neither is presented as the answer.
- Countries measure pay differently. A tax return, an employer payroll survey, a PAYE sample and a household survey are four different instruments, and gaps of a few per cent between countries are the instruments, not the wages.
converted = SGD 41,100 / FX(SGD->USD) adjusted = SGD 41,100 / PPP(SGP) disagreement = adjusted / converted
Every figure this page rests on
| Reading | SGD | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Median | $41,100 | The middle earner |
| 25th percentile | $32,136 | — |
| 75th percentile | $51,564 | — |
| Hourly | $20.80 | Median at 38 hrs/week |
Singapore Ministry of Manpower · JUN 2024
SOURCE·Singapore Ministry of Manpower — Occupational Wage Survey·Singapore Open Data Licence·REVIEWED JUN 2024
What people ask next
- How much does senior cook (e.g. station chef, commis cook 1, station cook) earn in Singapore?
- The median is $41,100 a year, about $20.80 an hour, according to Singapore Ministry of Manpower, Occupational Wage Survey, June 2024.
- Is that figure before or after tax?
- Before. Every figure on this page is gross pay as the statistics agency published it — income tax, social contributions and any deductions come off afterwards, and they differ enough between countries that we do not model them.
- Why is the US-dollar figure different depending on where I read it?
- Because there are two of them. $41,100 converts to $31,796 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $40,144 buys in the United States once Singapore's price level is accounted for. The first answers "what could I wire abroad", the second answers "how well does someone live on this".
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