Singapore minimum wage
National statutory minimum wage. Singapore: structural null — no general minimum wage exists; sectoral Progressive Wage Model ladders and the Local Qualifying Salary are the actual wage-floor mechanisms.
| Current value | structured — see the API |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-01 |
| Official source | Ministry of Manpower — Local Qualifying Salary and Progressive Wage Model pages (no general minimum wage under the Employment Act 1968) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
STRUCTURAL NULL: Singapore has no general statutory minimum wage — the Employment Act 1968 sets no universal wage floor; pay is contractual. Real wage-floor mechanisms: (1) Progressive Wage Models (PWM) — tripartite sectoral/occupational wage-and-training ladders that are mandatory in cleaning (since 1 Sep 2014), security (1 Sep 2016), landscape (30 Jun 2016), lift & escalator (1 May 2019), retail (1 Sep 2022), food services (1 Mar 2023), occupational progressive wages for administrators and drivers (1 Mar 2023) and waste management (1 Jul 2023); in-house cleaners/security/landscape workers covered since 1 Sep 2022. Enforced via licensing conditions (NEA for cleaning/waste, Police Licensing & Regulatory Department for security, BCA registration for lift & escalator, Landscape Company Register) and via work-pass application/renewal conditions (MOM PWM overview: https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/progressive-wage-model/what-is-pwm, loaded). PWM wage floors vary by sector and job level on published multi-year schedules — a matrix with no single national floor. (2) Local Qualifying Salary (LQS): any firm employing foreign workers (Work Permit/S Pass/EP) must pay ALL full-time local (citizen/PR) employees not covered by a PWM at least S$1,800/month gross (part-timers >= S$10.50/hour gross); the MOM page loaded 2026-07-20 states 'The LQS is $1,800 today'. The LQS was raised from S$1,600 (in force from 1 Jul 2024) with effect from 1 Jul 2026 per the Budget 2026 announcement — the S$1,800 value is primary-verified on MOM, but the exact 1 Jul 2026 effective date is triangulated from secondary Budget-2026 summaries because the MOM page states the value without a date; flagged for re-verification. LQS also drives foreign-worker quota counting (>=S$1,800 = 1 local; S$900-<S$1,800 = 0.5). The LQS binds only employers of foreign workers and is NOT a universal minimum wage — never serve it as one.
Get it programmatically
curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/sg/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/sg/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
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