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Written Answer to PQ on Senior Employment Credit

NOTICE PAPER NO. 34 OF 2025 FOR THE SITTING ON OR AFTER 23 SEPTEMBER 2025
QUESTION NO. 151 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan

To ask the Minister for Manpower what is the annual breakdown by sector for senior workers who have benefitted from the Senior Employment Credit (SEC) scheme from 2021 to 2025.

Answer:

Since its introduction in 2021, the SEC has benefitted over 500,000 unique senior workers (as of end-2024).

2. Table 1 below shows the annual breakdown by sector.

Table 1: Annual Breakdown of Senior Workers who Benefitted from SEC, by Sector

Year

Sector

Number of Senior Workers Benefitted*

2021

Manufacturing

56,162

Construction

36,015

Services and Others^

488,351

Total

580,528

2022

Manufacturing

56,385

Construction

38,211

Services and Others

511,909

Total

606,505

2023

Manufacturing

40,508

Construction

30,253

Services and Others

383,848

Total

454,609

2024

Manufacturing

41,535

Construction

32,319

Services and Others

394,712

Total

468,566

 

Notes:

* The figures represent unique employer-employee pairs. Employees could be represented multiple times in the table, as they could benefit from SEC across different years, or work for multiple employers and/or across multiple sectors across years.
^ “Others” includes Agriculture, Fishing, Quarrying, Utilities and Sewerage & Waste Management.
Source: IRAS