Good fit
Candidates with a Singapore job offer, an employer or appointed employment agent able to apply, and a fixed monthly salary meeting the age- and sector-sensitive qualifying threshold.
Singapore · Skilled Worker
Employment Pass
An employer-sponsored Singapore work pass for foreign professionals, managers, and executives with a job offer in Singapore who meet the qualifying-salary and, unless exempted, COMPASS requirements.
Status note. Singapore MOM describes a two-stage Employment Pass eligibility framework. Salary thresholds and COMPASS rules are time-sensitive and remain flagged for human review.
Decision fit
Who this pathway serves
Important limits
Applicants without a Singapore job offer or employer application route. The retained sources do not establish a universal degree, family, remote-work, or permanent-residence outcome.
Minimums
Eligibility
Age
No hard age floor or ceiling is modeled.
Work experience
Minimum: Not stated years
Language
Not stated
Education
Minimum: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Assessment: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Degree-equivalent qualifications can contribute COMPASS points, but MOM states candidates without them may still pass through other criteria.
Selection threshold
Points: 40
Competition: Not stated
Health and character
Medical exam: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Police certificate: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Costs
Funds and fees
Settlement funds
No settlement-fund table is published.
Application fees
No fee table is published.
Outcomes
Residence, work, and family
Permanent residence
The retained Employment Pass pages link to a permanent-residence question but do not establish a PR eligibility rule.
Work: Yes · Study: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Family
MOM's key-facts page notes eligible family passes but does not establish the family conditions in this source set.
Partner: Unknown — confirm with the official source · Children: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Citizenship
The retained Employment Pass pages do not establish a citizenship pathway.
Processing time
Modeled: Not stated–Not stated months
Sources
Official sources
Citations
Field provenance
Information only, not legal advice. Rules, fees, and processing times change. Confirm the linked official pages before acting.