by Ekrem Duman | Jul 11, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Singapore
⚡ TL;DREmploying foreign talent in Singapore means managing MOM’s employer-level scoring as much as candidate-level criteria: the Fair Consideration Framework requires jobs to be advertised to locals on MyCareersFuture before most EP filings, COMPASS C3/C4...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 11, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Singapore
⚡ TL;DRA Singapore relocation is operationally the smoothest in this series — pass formalities in days, banking same-week, English everywhere — and financially the most bimodal: rent and cars are brutal, nearly everything else is reasonable. Condo...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 11, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Singapore
⚡ TL;DRSingapore employment law is the lightest-touch regime in this series: the Employment Act covers most employees with modest floors — 7–14 days’ statutory annual leave, paid sick leave tied to service, notice per contract (statutory...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 11, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Singapore
⚡ TL;DRSingapore taxes territorially and lightly: employment income earned in Singapore is taxed on progressive resident rates from 0% to 24% (a S$160,000 salary bears an effective rate around 10–11%), foreign-sourced personal income is generally exempt,...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 11, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Singapore
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s flagship work pass is the Employment Pass (EP): a fixed minimum salary (raised to S$5,600 for new applications, higher in financial services, and scaling steeply with age) plus a pass mark on the COMPASS points system scoring salary...
