How Much Do Singapore Airlines Flight Attendants Get Paid for Providing Great Service?

by Adam Last updated May 26, 2013

Every time I fly Singapore Airlines, I always receive warm professional service with a smile. So, how do those flight attendants get compensated for their stellar service? Aero Galactic has a breakdown of their salaries in SGD:

Basic Pay : $ 1350 per month
Flying Per hour pay : $ 9.50 per hour, OverNight allowance : $ 20.50
Turnaround allowance : $ 70
Transport allowance : $ 277 per month
Laundry allowance : $ 125 per month

Long haul flight allowance ( above 12 hr 30 min ) : Flight hours x 2.5 times -(eg : flight to London return is 30 hours so $9.50 x 30 x 2.5 = $ 712. 50 )

Overseas nightstop allowance : Varies depending on country – ( eg : London about $ 650 and Melbourne about $ 400 )

All in expect an average of between $3500 – 6000 per month. It could be more or even lesser depending on the monthly roster and which route operated in that particular month.

In addition you get the following benefits: Free and discounted travel, annual wage supplement of one month’s salary, profit sharing bonus, and attractive medical and dental benefits.

Aero Galactic also published the salaries for low-cost Singapore based airline, Tiger Airways:

Flight Attendant:
Basic Salary : $ 900
Per hour pay : $ 8
Senior Flight Attendant:
Basic Salary : $ 1060
Per hour pay : $ 12
Meal allowance : $ 5 Laundry : $ 3 – Per Flying Day
Night flight transportation Allowance
$30 ( Signing on / off between 11:30pm to 6:30am )
Commission from food and beverages and duty free items
5% (Eg. Sales 1000 = $50 )
You will also be provided with attractive Medical and Dental benefit

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Adam is the proud Founder and CEO of both Point Me to the Plane and point.me. An international consultant turned TV programming strategist, Adam currently works full-time on both websites. His obsession with points and miles dates back to his freshman year at college. After browsing Flyertalk and Mileage Workshop, Adam pulled the trigger and signed up for his first Citibank AAdvantage credit card and MCI phone line (yes, landlines still existed). Back then, both deals were churnable and in no time at all, the college freshman had enough miles to travel to Europe and Asia in First Class for free, multiple times. Needless to say, he was hooked! Fast forward a few years and Adam of course ended up in a career with a heavy travel requirement…which meant extra miles for awards! As his colleagues and friends started to hear about and see pictures from his trips, they wanted in on the secret and Adam began to assist them with their bookings, Juicy Miles was born. At the same time, Adam started an email newsletter to prevent those less obsessed co-workers from squandering their point collection opportunities. The bi-weekly email covered everything from upcoming promotions, guidance on maximizing points, and redemption advice. The distribution quickly expanded outside the office and Point Me to the Plane became a BoardingArea blog.

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18 comments

Norman Hough May 26, 2013 - 3:01 pm

my GF is a 16 year CA at ANA and she clears 100K annual including all her per diem etc.

NYBanker May 26, 2013 - 8:06 pm

What currency?

adam May 27, 2013 - 10:03 pm

@NYBanker – I’m going to guess SGD, though the website is US based so it could be USD…

Mateo May 26, 2013 - 11:19 pm

Allegedly, my friend makes $30 CAD/hour at WestJet Starting pay
Allegedly, Air Canada long term workers got lucky with the $50 CAD / hour capped. Both are gross pre-major-Cad-taxes which are known to be brutal worldwide.
80 hour flying month plus per D on layovers.
Nothing beats the service of Asian carriers though. Best in the world.

Tproc May 30, 2013 - 10:58 am

Well, pretty ironic that the U.S. and European FAs get paid so much and offer crappy services. Nothing to complain. It’s a service cultural difference. I talked to some first class FAs in SQ in this post:http://www.tprochina.com/2013/05/singapore-airline-let-me-have-3-first.html

and they take pride in their services regardless of how much they get paid.

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