The median income for women working in Singapore was 14.3% less than that for men in 2023, a narrower gap than in 2018. However, Singapore's pay gap was slightly worse than the OECD average.
Singapore has made strides in raising employment opportunities for women, though they are still earning less than men. The median income for women working here was 14.3 per cent less than that for men in 2023, a narrower gap than the 16.3 per cent in 2018, according to the latest Ministry of Manpower (MOM) data. Singapore ’s pay gap was slightly worse than that across Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) countries, which was 12.1 per cent in 2022.
But the OECD data also shows the Republic did better than countries like the United States (17 per cent in 2022), Britain (14.5 per cent) and Japan (21.3 per cent
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