Written Answer to PQ on Compliance Rates of PWM sectors occupations and LQS

NOTICE PAPER NO. 124 OF 2025 FOR THE SITTING ON OR AFTER 16 OCTOBER 2025
QUESTION NO. 377 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan

To ask the Minister for Manpower in the past year, what are the compliance rates among employers for the (i) Local Qualifying Salary requirement to all local employees not covered under Progressive Wages (ii) Occupational Progressive Wages for administrators and drivers and (iii) Sectoral Progressive Wage Model.

Answer:

1. About 8 in 10 eligible employees received salaries which met the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) and Occupational Progressive Wages’ (OPW) requirements. Among workers not covered by PWM, 9 in 10 are paid at least the Local Qualifying Salary (LQS).