Two minutes. Your roles, your hiring, your numbers. No generic percentages, and every figure links to its source.
MOM's latest count: 1 in 6 frontline vacancies stays open for six months or more. Waiters, shop sales assistants and cooks are all in the five hardest roles to fill.
There is no Singapore benchmark for this, so use your own experience. The one anchor MOM gives: retail PWM allows new hires six months to complete their first WSQ module.
At your numbers, staff turnover is costing you about
of one year's pay, per leaver. The old rule of thumb was a flat 20%, borrowed from US studies. This is yours, built from your own inputs.
Pay is the number one reason Singapore workers quit. Under the Progressive Wage Credit Scheme the Government pays 30% of wage increases in 2026 for resident staff earning up to S$3,000. A S$100 raise costs you S$70. Set against your cost per leaver, that is a cheap way to keep someone.
Turnover rates are average monthly resignation rates from MOM's Labour Market Survey, annualised by multiplying by 12. Wages marked as PWM floors are legal minimums for firms that hire foreign workers, in force on the dates shown. Wages marked MOM median are gross monthly medians for full-time residents from the Occupational Wage Survey, June 2025, released 30 June 2026. Items marked estimate have no Singapore benchmark and should be replaced with your own figures. Hourly rate follows MOM's formula: 12 × monthly pay ÷ (52 × 44).