Singapore’s AI talent earns a wage premium across sectors
AI-related roles in Singapore command wage premiums across sectors, demonstrating how demand for AI skills is reshaping pay. That is according to research from PwC.
The analysis from the Big Four firm looked at approximately 1.6 million Singapore job postings from January to December 2025, comparing pay levels for roles that require AI and those that don’t. The analysis shows that all sectors surveyed showed wage premiums for AI-related jobs starting at 32%, with the Government and Public Sector offering up to 107% premiums and Consumer Markets showing 96% premiums.
Of the 1.6 million Singapore job postings analysed, more than half (around 897,000) were for occupations with higher AI exposure – that is, roles whose core tasks and required abilities are more likely to be affected, augmented, or reshaped by AI capabilities.
“The findings suggest that AI is no longer sitting at the edge of the organization – it is being embedded into workflows, roles, and decision-making across the workforce. That makes AI fluency the name of the game,” said Anthony Dias, AI Hub Leader at PwC in Singapore.
In Singapore, the Technology, Media and Telecommunications industry leads in AI job postings, accounting for 18.9% of postings across the sectors analysed, followed by the Government and Public Sector (13.5%) and Financial Services (12.2%). This data suggests that demand for AI roles is stronger among service-intensive and knowledge-based sectors.
With AI’s increasing presence in the workforce, there’s growth in demand for AI user and developer roles. The biggest growth has been in AI user roles, while demand for AI developers has seen a smaller increase.
AI user roles accounted for the bulk of the increase (about +26,000), while AI developer roles also expanded (around +4,200) in 2025 compared to the prior year. Overall, around 82% of AI-related job postings are for AI user roles, while the remaining are for AI developers.
Kwek So Cheer, Partner in the Digital Solutions practice, commented: “The fact that 82% of AI-related job postings are for AI user roles, not specialists, tells us something important, that Singapore is moving toward a mass AI-enabled workforce, which can unlock significant economic gains.”
“The wage premiums we are seeing reflect the value organisations place on AI capabilities, but the bigger opportunity lies in equipping the broader workforce, across roles and seniority levels, to apply AI in their day-to-day work. That’s how we turn AI adoption into shared economic gains, higher-value jobs, and stronger long-term resilience, for Singapore’s people and businesses.”
