"Rich" is relative — here's the number
People are famously bad at guessing where they sit on the income ladder: high earners often feel middle class, and vice versa. This replaces the feeling with a percentile based on the Singapore income distribution — the kind of result people screenshot and argue about.
What you're probably wondering
These thresholds are for individual gross income among earners, which is how SG earnings distributions are usually reported.
It's based on an approximate SG income distribution. Real percentiles vary by source and year, so treat it as a close estimate.
No — enter your gross salary. Median figures that include employer CPF will look higher than this calculator uses.