S$1,000 bought a record ¥125,818 in July 2026. See yen, won, ringgit and baht month by month since 2015, from MAS exchange rates.
¥125,818
yen bought by S$1,000 in July 2026, the highest of 465 months since January 1988
Insights
Singapore, decoded from public data: one surprising finding per page, with the numbers and the method shown.
Pick your job: working a public holiday on a working day earns an extra day at your basic rate, $138.46 on $3,000 a month and a 5-day week (MOM).
$138.46
extra pay for working a public holiday on a working day, on $3,000 basic pay a month and a 5-day week (MOM's formula)
Pick your year of service: the law gives 7 to 14 days of annual leave and up to 14 of sick leave, yet 79 in 100 rank-and-file staff get 14 or fewer (MOM).
79
in every 100 rank-and-file employees get 14 days of annual leave or fewer, the most the law ever guarantees (MOM survey, 2024)
Pick a monthly salary to see what Singapore income tax takes: the rate on your next dollar versus the share of your pay, and who pays the tax (IRAS data).
1.7%
of a $5,000 monthly salary goes to income tax for a citizen or PR, though the next dollar of taxable pay is taxed at 7%
Born in 1971, your CPF Full Retirement Sum is $220,400; born in 1961, $161,000. Pick your birth year, 1941 to 1972, to see yours, from CPF's tables.
5.7
times as much: the Full Retirement Sum for people born in 1972 against people born from Jul 1940 to Jun 1941
A football tournament was Singapore's top Google search in 4 of 9 years. Pick a year, 2016 to 2025, for Google's top 10.
4 of 9
years a football tournament was Singapore's top Google search
Return Right machines pay 10 cents per empty, uncrushed can or bottle.
1,300+
Return Right machines running on 1 Oct, each paying 10 cents back on an empty can or bottle
23.5 in every 100 Singapore businesses used AI in 2025, up from 14.7. Every sector rose, but construction by only 0.2. By sector, IMDA and SingStat.
23.5
in every 100 Singapore businesses used AI in 2025, up from 4.4 in 2023
Central had the most hours at PSI 101+ in 2026 so far (447); West in 2015 (836). By year and part of Singapore since 2014. NEA data, 13 Oct 2026.
447
hours at PSI 101 or higher somewhere in Singapore so far in 2026, against 856 in 2015
Citizens can rent a whole HDB flat (not Prime or Plus) or, from a 3-room up, 1 or 2 HDB-built bedrooms; never the shelter.
$3,300
a month: the typical declared rent for a 4-room HDB flat
An HDB flat can run a business under 2 schemes, and signs and ads are banned under both. Rules as read from URA, SFA and ACRA on 12 Oct 2026.
2
schemes decide what an HDB flat can run as a business
Tampines has the most bicycle racks at an MRT station, 2,057, but only 9% of the 35,502 racks LTA lists at stations are sheltered. LTA data, 12 Oct 2026.
2,057
bicycle racks at Tampines, the most at any MRT station
What an insight is
A comparison ranks prices from each business's own website. An insight looks for one surprising pattern in public data. Every number is computed from the data, every page shows how we found it, and none of them ranks schools or businesses as better or worse.
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