Prices in Singapore 🇸🇬
What 7 everyday items cost in Singapore, shown in US dollars, in SGD, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Singapore imports more than 90% of its food, so grocery prices are set by shipping and wholesale markets rather than local farming. Fuel and vehicle costs are deliberately high as congestion policy, which is why petrol here sits near the European range despite low taxes elsewhere in the economy.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.78 | 7.45 SGD | 22 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.55 | 2.1 SGD | 6 min |
| Cappuccino | $5.15 | 6.61 SGD | 19 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $3.12 | 4 SGD | 12 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $3.69 | 4.73 SGD | 14 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $4.39 | 5.63 SGD | 16 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.47 | 3.17 SGD | 9 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Singapore compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Singapore is most expensive for milk, where it ranks 1st out of 32 countries at $3.12 — against a global median of $1.54.
It is relatively cheapest for big mac at $5.78, which is 16th of 33 — only 17 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 22 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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