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Statistical Mumbo Jumbo
Here's a quick explanation to the three numbers produced by the Salary Calculator.

• Mean - the average salary of the profession of interest.
• First Quartile - the wage at which one quarter of the employees earn below that amount.
• Third Quartile - the wage at which three quarters of the employees earn below that amount.

The JobsCentral Salary Calculator is based on data from the Singapore Ministry of Manpower's Report on Wages in Singapore 2008. For a copy of the report, please click here.

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2008 Top 100 Best Paying Jobs in Singapore

Data for the salary levels of 2008 have finally been released by the Ministry of Manpower. Since this is only the second set of such data to be featured on JobsCentral Community, it will be the first time we run a year on year comparison of the wages for occupations in various industries in Singapore. For the record, here are the top 10 highest paying jobs in Singapore in 2008:

Rank	Industry	Occupation	Gross Mean Salary
1	Financial Services	Managing Director	S$42,246
2	Business Services	Managing Director	S$26,887
3	Information and Communications	Managing Director	S$22,922
4	Education, Health and Social Services	Specialised Surgeon	S$20,819
5	Transport and Storage	Managing Director	S$20,589
6	Information and Communications	General Manager	S$20,465
7	Art, Entertainment, Recreation and Other Services	Managing Director	S$19,478
8	Education, Health and Social Services	Managing Director	S$19,337
9	Financial Services	Company Director	S$18,497
10	Wholesale and Retail Trade	Commodities Futures Broker	S$18,423

The list of highest paying jobs is dominated by top management personnel, with the exceptions of the specialised surgeon in fourth position, the general manager from the Information and Communications industry at sixth position, and the commodities futures broker at tenth position. Within these 10 jobs, the monthly gross mean salary has increased from $20,167 in 2007 to $22,966.30 in 2008. Besides that, the difference between the monthly gross mean salary of the top paying job and the lowest one in the top 10 has also increased by 65% between the 2 years.

Zooming in to top management personnel, managing directors for Financial Services and Business Services were the highest paid, while their counterparts in industries such as Art, Entertainment, Recreation and Other Services earned considerably less.

On the whole, salaries for 2008 have increased from the year before, illustrated by how the minimum salary to be listed within the top 100 jobs has risen by 18.5% from 2007 to reach $8,057. Want to know if your job is within this top 100 list? Click here to find out.