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
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Number of Senior Workers Benefitted*
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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