Real median pay during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how real median pay changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#	Prime minister	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Lee Hsien Loong	12 Aug 2004 – 15 May 2024	+51.2% 2004 → 2023	+2.2%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. S$ per month, in today's money, full-time employed residents · Ministry of Manpower's Comprehensive Labour Force Survey via SingStat Table Builder (M182981), median gross monthly income from work of full-time employed residents including the employer's CPF contribution, June, adjusted for inflation with the CPI · Singapore data · as of Sep 2026.