Written Answer to PQ on Singaporeans who took up part-time jobs alongside full-time employment

NOTICE PAPER NO. 3429 OF 2025 FOR A SITTING ON OR AFTER 14 FEBRUARY 2025 QUESTION NO. 6539 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) for each year from 2020 to 2024, how many Singaporean workers took up part-time jobs alongside full-time employment; and (b) if the Ministry does not track this data, whether it plans to do so.

Answer:

1. The number of full-time employed residents aged 15 and over who held multiple jobs, including a main full-time job, was 48,900 in 2020, 60,000 in 2021, 58,400 in 2022, 49,600 in 2023 and 56,000 in 2024.

2. In 2024, this constituted 2.7% of full-time employed residents.