Singapore: IT Salary Benchmark 2009

The study polled a total of 21,627 respondents from various sectors including government, healthcare, IT, services, telecommunications, legal and finance, and across eight Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Some 3,526 respondents were from Singapore, holding full-time positions with job functions that cut across several areas such as systems development, project management and support.

In addition, 225 respondents from the country were either contract or independent consultants, while another 13 held part-time positions, working fewer than 28 hours a week.

Respondents who held IT management responsibilities in the legal and finance industry were the highest paid among their peers in Singapore, pulling in an average salary of S$103,598 a year.