Statutory Minimum Wage

Guidelines on Statutory Minimum Wage

• Statutory Minimum Wage: latest revision
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• Concise Guide to Statutory Minimum Wage
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• Statutory Minimum Wage : Reference Guidelines for Employers and Employees
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• Statutory Minimum Wage : Industry-specific Reference Guidelines
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Note: The Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) rate will increase from its prevailing level of $42.1 per hour to $43.1 with effect from 1 May 2026.  For guidelines on the Statutory Minimum Wage rate of $42.1 per hour, please click here.

Student interns and work experience students during a period of exempt student employment:

(For exemption details, please click here)

• Statutory Minimum Wage : Notes for Student Employees and Employers (1.83 MB) (PDF)
• Leaflet on Exemption for specified student interns and work experience students (794 KB) (PDF) 
• Specimen Content of statutory declaration made by a work experience student for a period of exempt student employment (221 KB) (PDF)

(To make use of the following two forms, it is recommended to download the relevant PDF form, assess and input data with the latest version of Acrobat Reader. The fillable PDF form may encounter operation problems using browsers.)

• Specimen Confirmation of "student intern" status (Fillable PDF Form) (390 KB) (PDF)
• Specimen Confirmation of student status for "work experience student" (Fillable PDF Form) (371 KB) (PDF)

Employees with disabilities:

• Concise Guide to Productivity Assessment for Employees with Disabilities under the Statutory Minimum Wage Regime
  • Chinese (3.48 MB) (PDF)
  • English (2.38 MB) (PDF)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (940 KB) (PDF)
  • Tagalog (816 KB) (PDF)
  • Thai ภาษาไทย (1.97 MB) (PDF)
  • Hindi हिंदी (1.28 MB) (PDF)
  • Nepali नेपाली (1.04 MB) (PDF)
  • Urdu اردو  (1.08 MB) (PDF)
  • Sinhala සිංහල (960 KB) (PDF)
  • Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (0.99 MB) (PDF)
  • Vietnamese Tiếng Việt (1.03 MB) (PDF)
• Support Kits on Productivity Assessment for Employees with Disabilities under the Statutory Minimum Wage Regime
  • Support Kit for Employees with Disabilities
  • Support Kit for Employers
• Revision of Statutory Minimum Wage Rate: Notes for Employees with Disabilities and Employers (257 KB) (PDF) 

• Article titled "Statutory Minimum Wage-Rights of Employees with Disabilities and Productivity Assessment" (136 KB) (PDF)