How much can you earn doing odd jobs?

The highest paying completed job on Quest in the last six months was a three day cashier and promoter shift that paid SGD 420. The most common was a SGD 13 errand, and there were 286 of those. If you want to know how much you can earn doing odd jobs, that gap is the honest answer: the work runs from twenty minute pickups to multi day gigs, and the pay runs with it.

We pulled every completed quest in Singapore from the last six months, 892 of them, and looked at what each one actually paid. No estimates, no surveys. Here is what the numbers say.

How much can you earn doing odd jobs, by category

Median pay depends almost entirely on what kind of job it is. Errands were the biggest category at 286 completed jobs, with a median of SGD 13. The top quarter paid above SGD 20 and the largest single errand paid SGD 100. These are short by design: collect a parcel, buy something, drop it off somewhere. Stacking several in an afternoon is the realistic way to make errands add up.

Part-time work paid considerably better per job. The 115 completed part-time quests had a median of SGD 48, with the top quarter above SGD 80 and a ceiling of SGD 420. Booth staffing, promoter shifts, cashier work and sales days all live here.

Creative work sat just behind it. 111 completed creative jobs had a median of SGD 40, a top quarter above SGD 80, and a maximum of SGD 350 for an e-commerce website design. Tech and IT posted the highest median of any category at SGD 60, though it was also the smallest at 15 completed jobs, so treat that number as a signal rather than a rule.

The mid-tier categories cluster tightly. Teaching and tutoring came in at a SGD 35 median, household work at SGD 35, care services at SGD 33, business and admin at SGD 33, social media at SGD 30, research at SGD 22 and odd jobs at SGD 20.

Which side jobs pay the most per job

Looking at the single highest paying completed job in each category tells a different story than the medians. Business and admin topped out at SGD 480. Part-time hit SGD 420. Tech and IT and social media both reached SGD 400. Care services and creative work both peaked at SGD 350. Talents, which covers performers and on-camera work, reached SGD 300.

Notice what is missing from that list. Errands cap out at SGD 100. So the trade-off is real: if you want one large payday, the ceilings sit in skilled and multi day work like event staffing and design. If you want volume and flexibility with no portfolio required, errands are the easiest place to start.

The jobs people actually paid real money for

Averages hide how strange and specific this work gets. A pet nanny job covering two dogs and a chinchilla paid SGD 350. A magician for an event paid SGD 300. Someone hired a developer to build an article web scraper with a Telegram bot for SGD 400. A female photographer for an engagement shoot went for SGD 250.

Further down the scale the requests get more human. A balloon sculpturing assistant at SGD 30. A basketball assistant in Kovan at SGD 20. Someone paid SGD 40 for help pulling out their white hairs with tweezers. Someone else paid SGD 12 to have baby brine shrimp bought from an aquarium shop. Mystery assessor work, essentially getting paid to shop and report back, showed up repeatedly at around SGD 20 a visit.

None of these are jobs you would find on a job board. They exist because someone needed a specific thing done on a specific day and was willing to pay a person to do it.

How much work is actually available

Across all markets, 1,875 quests were completed in the same six month window, spread across 12 categories and 35 sub-categories. That breadth matters more than any single pay figure. It means the work is not concentrated in one narrow type of task, so someone who can drive, someone who can shoot video, someone who is good with animals and someone who is free on a Saturday morning for home and household jobs all have something to bid on.

Errands and delivery were the single most active area in every market we operate in, which is the practical starting point for most people: low barrier, high frequency, and you can build a rating before going after the bigger jobs.

Frequently asked questions

How much can you earn doing odd jobs on Quest?

Across 892 completed jobs in Singapore over six months, pay ranged from a SGD 13 median for errands to a SGD 48 median for part-time work, with the highest single job paying SGD 480. Skilled categories like tech, creative and business admin have the highest ceilings, while errands offer the most frequent, lowest barrier work.

Which odd job category pays the most?

By median pay per job, tech and IT led at SGD 60, followed by part-time work at SGD 48 and creative work at SGD 40. By single highest paying job, business and admin led at SGD 480, then part-time at SGD 420, then tech and IT and social media at SGD 400 each.

Do you need experience to start doing odd jobs?

Not for most of it. Errands, deliveries, mystery shopping and general part-time work make up the largest share of completed jobs and require no portfolio or prior experience. Higher paying creative, tech and specialist jobs generally expect relevant samples or a track record on the platform.

How often does new work get posted?

Quest saw 1,875 quests completed across 12 categories and 35 sub-categories in the six months to August 2026, with errands and delivery the most active area in every market. New jobs are posted daily rather than in weekly batches.

Data source: Quest platform data covering 892 completed quests in Singapore and 1,875 completed quests across all markets, for the six months ending August 2026. All Singapore figures are stated in SGD. Pay varies by market, category and how the job is scoped.