Civil Service adjusts salaries to keep pace with the market

• The salaries of civil servants in generic schemes will be adjusted to keep pace with the market and enable the Civil Service to attract and retain a fair share of talent.

• The Civil Service will also step up growth and development initiatives and introduce more flexible work arrangements to make a career in the Civil Service more attractive.

        The Civil Service periodically reviews salaries and adjusts them when necessary to broadly keep pace with, but not lead, the market. The Public Service Division last made revisions to the Civil Service generic schemes in 2014, and since then, salary levels in the market have gone up. Hence, the Public Service Division (PSD) will be adjusting the salaries for officers in the Civil Service generic schemes and their related schemes with effect from 1 Aug 2022. These adjustments will enable the Civil Service to continue to attract and retain its fair share of talent.

2       Officers in the Management Executive Scheme (MXS), Management Support Scheme (MSS) and Corporate Support Scheme (CSS) will receive salary adjustments of between 5% to 10%, with higher adjustments for grades that have larger gaps with market benchmark.

3       Officers in the Operations Support Scheme (OSS) will receive higher adjustments of between 6% to 14%. This is in line with the call by the Tripartite Workgroup on Lower-Wage Workers to uplift the salaries of lower-wage workers. Alongside these adjustments, PSD has been working with the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE) to redesign OSS officers’ jobs, improve career progression, and raise productivity in the long run.

4       In total, approximately 23,000 officers across the generic schemes and their related schemes will benefit from the salary adjustments. These officers perform diverse roles across the Civil Service, ranging from policymaking to administration and operations work.

5       Besides salary adjustments, the Public Service will continue to step up efforts to provide officers with meaningful career opportunities and support officers’ growth and development. These include job attachments, structured job rotations, formal training and project work. The Public Service has also introduced hybrid work arrangements as well as flexible work options. The pandemic has underscored the importance of a strong Public Service. The Public Service is committed to attracting, developing and retaining a future-ready workforce that can continue to deliver its best for Singapore and Singaporeans.