CCP Minimum Salary 2026: What to Offer, Programme by Programme
In short
There is no single CCP minimum salary. 60 of 67 programme pages print their own floor, S$2,300 to S$4,000. See what counts as fixed pay and what to offer.
There is no single CCP minimum salary. SWDA prints no number, but 60 of 67 programme pages on the government CCP listing print their own fixed monthly floor, which we read on 5 October 2026. Floors run from S$2,300 to S$4,000. For a professional hire, plan on S$3,500 fixed unless your programme prints less.
That matters before the offer letter, not after it. A salary written below the programme's floor can't be fixed by a good training plan, and our own eligibility check starts even earlier, at S$3,000 basic. If the role sits under that line, it is usually not worth paying the S$2,250 that our pricing page asks up front. This guide shows what each programme prints, what counts towards the floor, what interior design, car sales, education and construction roles actually pay, and a way to test an offer before you sign it.
Updated 5 October 2026. Every floor below was read on the programme's own government page on that date.
Key takeaways
- SWDA only asks for pay at the market rate, per its July 2026 CCP FAQ. The numbers live on each programme's page.
- Of the 60 pages that print a floor, 42 set the main floor at S$3,500 or more, according to our read of the government CCP listing. Only 9 set it at S$3,000 or less.
- Fixed monthly salary means basic pay plus fixed allowances, as the tourism programme page defines it. Commission is not part of that definition.
- The S$3,000 rate for SME Professionals ended for applications not approved by 30 June 2026, per SBF's programme page. It is S$3,500 again.
- Our S$3,000 basic screen is our own threshold, not a programme rule, and it is set out on our eligibility check.
Is there a minimum salary for a CCP hire?
Yes, but not one number. SWDA sets the frame and leaves the figure to each programme. Its FAQ asks for a permanent contract, or one of at least a year, at pay that matches the market rate. That's the whole national rule on pay.
The programme pages are where the floor appears. We opened all 67 pages linked from the government listing on 5 October 2026 and read the salary line on each. Sixty print a minimum fixed monthly salary. Seven print none: the aerospace and electronics pages only ask for a market rate, and the nursing, allied health and social work pages describe public-sector starting pay rather than an employer floor.
So the question an employer should ask isn't "what is the CCP minimum salary?" It's "which programme fits this role, and what does its page print?" The answer changes the number you write, sometimes by S$1,500, as the public transport page (S$2,500) and the wholesale trade page (S$4,000) show.
What each programme prints, side by side
Most programmes cluster on one figure. The table groups the 67 pages by the main floor they print for a new hire, with the lower tier where a page has one. The source for every row is the programme's own page on the government listing, read on 5 October 2026.
| Main floor (fixed, per month) | Pages | Programmes | Lower tier on the same page |
|---|---|---|---|
| S$4,000 | 1 | Wholesale Trade Professionals (new-hire PMET) | None |
| S$3,800 | 2 | Sustainability Professionals (SBF, SNEF) | None |
| S$3,600 | 1 | Food Professionals and Associates (PMET) | S$2,400 non-PMET |
| S$3,500 | 38 | ICT Professionals (25 pages), SME Professionals (4), Tourism new hires (4), Advanced Manufacturing Engineer (2), Digital Advertising and Marketing, Autonomous Vehicle Specialists, Marine and Offshore | S$2,400 tourism rank and file; S$2,500 Assistant Engineer |
| S$3,400 | 1 | Air Transport (PMET) | S$2,200 non-PMET |
| S$3,200 | 8 | Human Capital Professionals (2), Biomedical Manufacturing (2), Supply Chain and Logistics (4) | S$2,400 non-PMET and coordinators |
| S$3,000 | 1 | Future Energy and Chemicals | None |
| S$2,600 | 3 | Preschool Educators (2), Early Intervention Educators | None |
| S$2,500 | 3 | Advanced Manufacturing Operator (2), Public Transport | None |
| S$2,300 | 2 | Infant and Early Years Educators | None |
| No number | 7 | Aerospace, Electronics, Enrolled and Registered Nurses (3), Allied Health, Social Workers | Market rate only |
Two things stand out. First, S$3,500 is the most common floor by a wide margin, carried by 38 of the 60 pages that print one, per our read of the listing. Second, the pages aren't always consistent with themselves. One preschool page prints S$2,600 in its salary table and S$2,400 in its employer criteria, and one infant-educator page prints S$2,300 and S$1,900. Where a page disagrees with itself, write the higher figure.
The SME Professionals floor deserves a note because it moved. SBF's page records a temporary cut to S$3,000 that applied only to new-hire applications submitted and approved by 30 June 2026, while its criteria now ask for at least S$3,500 fixed, per SBF. Any guide still quoting S$3,000 for that programme is out of date. Our guide to CCP for SME Professionals covers that programme in full.
What counts as fixed monthly salary, and why commission does not
The floor is measured on fixed monthly salary, and the pages that define it agree. The tourism page footnote reads "Fixed Monthly Salary = Basic Monthly Salary + Fixed Monthly Allowances", per the SHA programme page. The early-childhood pages count basic pay plus any fixed monthly allowance, per the preschool educator page.
ASME's employer FAQ for SME Professionals gives a worked example: S$3,500 fixed salary equals S$3,200 basic plus a S$300 fixed transport allowance, and the amount is "inclusive of employee's CPF", per the ASME FAQ. So the floor is a gross figure, before the employee's CPF comes off.
Commission, bonuses and overtime aren't in that definition. None of the 67 pages counts them, so we don't either. That's an inference from the definition, not a sentence any page prints, and it matters most in sales-heavy roles such as car sales, interior design sales and education consultants, where commission can be a large part of pay.
Two pages go further and set the floor on fixed basic pay alone: public transport and autonomous vehicle specialists, per the AV programme page. On those, an allowance doesn't lift a basic salary over the line.
Our S$3,000 line, and why it is not the programme's
Our eligibility check asks whether the hire's basic monthly salary, before allowances and CPF, is S$3,000 or more, as set out on our eligibility page. That's our threshold. No programme page uses those words, and on most programmes S$3,000 basic is still short of the floor.
We drew the line there for a practical reason. Roles that pay under S$3,000 rarely clear a programme floor, and the S$2,250 upfront fee on our pricing page rarely makes sense against the support it could bring. Telling you that in one minute is cheaper for both of us than telling you after a quotation.
The line cuts both ways. A preschool, operator or public transport role with a lower printed floor can be funded under S$3,000, and our screen would turn it away. If that's your role, the programme partner listed on the programme's page can confirm it with you directly.
What these roles pay on MyCareersFuture right now
We focus on four trades: automotive, education, interior design and construction. On 5 October 2026 we pulled the newest job ads for each from the public MyCareersFuture search, up to 100 per role, and read the advertised minimum monthly pay.
| Search on MyCareersFuture (5 Oct 2026) | Ads read | Median advertised minimum | Ads starting under S$3,000 | Ads starting under S$3,500 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interior designer | 100 of 252 | S$3,000 | 24% | 55% |
| Car sales | 34 of 34 | S$3,000 | 26% | 59% |
| Education consultant | 17 of 17 | S$3,300 | 35% | 65% |
| Project manager, construction | 100 of 250 | S$8,000 | 0% | 1% |
Read this as market context, not as fixed salary. Advertised ranges can include commission, and the car sales and education samples are small. Even so, the shape is clear in the MyCareersFuture data: about a quarter of interior design and car sales ads start under S$3,000, and more than half start under S$3,500. Construction project management sits far above every floor, so salary is rarely the problem there.
For the first three trades, the floor is the line to watch. An interior designer advertised at S$3,000 fits our screen but not the S$3,500 that the SME Professionals pages print.
Our call: write S$3,500 fixed unless your programme prints less
If you're hiring a professional, manager or executive into any of these trades, write at least S$3,500 fixed in the offer, as basic pay plus fixed allowances only. That figure clears 42 of the 60 printed floors on the government listing, and it is exactly the floor on the four SME Professionals pages, which are open to firms with no more than 200 staff or S$100 million in annual sales, per SBF.
Write less only when the programme's own page prints less and your role sits in that tier. Write more when the page asks for more: S$3,800 for sustainability roles and S$4,000 for wholesale trade new hires, per the wholesale trade page.
If commission is how your sales roles earn, move part of it into fixed pay for the conversion period rather than hoping it counts. If you can't, the role probably isn't a CCP role. That's a hard thing to hear from a consultant, but it's cheaper than a rejection three months in.
Higher fixed pay also raises the support, up to the cap. The standard band is up to 70% with a S$5,000 monthly ceiling; hires aged 40 or over, or out of work for six months or more, can reach up to 90% with a S$7,500 ceiling, per the SWDA factsheet. The full arithmetic is in what "up to 90%" salary support really pays.
How to check an offer before you sign it
We wrote a small check that does what we do by hand. It takes the programme, the basic pay, any fixed allowance and any commission, then tests the package twice: once against the floor printed on that programme's page, and once against our S$3,000 basic screen on the eligibility check. We ran it on 13 packages and checked every result by hand. Here are eight of them.
| Package (per month) | Programme | Counts as fixed | Programme floor | Our S$3,000 screen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S$2,999 basic | SME Professionals | S$2,999 | Fails, S$501 short | Fails |
| S$3,000 basic | SME Professionals | S$3,000 | Fails, S$500 short | Passes |
| S$3,200 basic + S$300 fixed allowance | SME Professionals | S$3,500 | Passes | Passes |
| S$3,499 basic | ICT Sales and Marketing | S$3,499 | Fails, S$1 short | Passes |
| S$2,200 basic + S$300 allowance + S$1,500 commission | Tourism new-hire PMET | S$2,500 | Fails, S$1,000 short | Fails |
| S$3,200 basic + S$500 allowance | Autonomous Vehicle Specialists | S$3,200 (basic only) | Fails, S$300 short | Passes |
| S$2,500 basic | Public Transport | S$2,500 | Passes | Fails |
| S$3,999 basic | Wholesale Trade new hire | S$3,999 | Fails, S$1 short | Passes |
The commission row is the common one in sales roles. On paper it pays S$4,000 a month. As fixed salary it pays S$2,500, short of the S$3,500 the tourism page prints, and it fails both lines. You can run the same check yourself in five steps:
- Name the role and find the programme whose job list fits it on the government listing.
- Open that programme's page and copy the floor for your tier: PMET, non-PMET, coordinator or assistant.
- Add basic pay and fixed monthly allowances only. Leave commission, bonus and overtime out. If the page says "fixed basic", leave allowances out too.
- Compare. If you're short, change the offer now or choose another route. Check the hire against the four connection exclusions at the same time.
- Start the clock. Approval must land within 3 months of the hire's start date, as set out in the SWDA FAQ, and our approvals typically take 12 to 15 weeks. Our note on the three-month CCP application deadline explains the timing.
Can you start lower and raise the salary after probation?
Not on anything we've read. ASME's FAQ covers a related case, a pay rise after the hire starts, and says support changes with the actual fixed salary from the month it takes effect. Its example raises a hire from S$3,500 to S$4,000, per the ASME FAQ. That's a raise from a salary already at the floor.
No page we read allows an offer to start below the floor and climb into it. Plan on the floor from day one. A salary below the floor is one of the quickest routes to the outcomes in why CCP applications get rejected.
Check the salary line before the offer letter goes out
Our one-minute eligibility check asks the salary question with the others that settle most cases: a Singapore-registered company, a Citizen or PR hire, and timing. If the role clears it, payment options unlock on the pricing page and we prepare the file. If it doesn't, you'll know before you've spent anything. We handle new hires only.
Method
We used the 67 programme pages linked from the government CCP listing as frozen on 30 September 2026, re-fetched every page on 5 October 2026 (67 of 67 returned a page) and saved the visible text. On each page we read the salary line by hand and recorded whether a number was printed, the main floor, any lower tier and the salary basis ("fixed", "fixed basic" or market rate). The salary check applies those floors to a proposed package, with commission always excluded and allowances excluded where a page says "fixed basic". The pay figures are the advertised minimum of the newest ads returned by the MyCareersFuture search for each role on 5 October 2026.
Limits
A programme page isn't the whole rulebook, and a programme partner can apply tests no page prints. Floors change: SME Professionals ran a lower rate until 30 June 2026. Company-specific CCP approvals sit outside the 67-page frame, and their salary terms aren't published. Advertised pay ranges aren't fixed salary, and the car sales (34 ads) and education consultant (17 ads) samples are small. Re-read your programme's page before you sign.
Cite this
Minimum fixed monthly salary on Career Conversion Programme pages: a 67-page decode, CCP Consulting, by Agape Ko, collected 5 October 2026, dataset version 1 (67 rows), with a 13-case salary check and MyCareersFuture pay read the same day. Download the salary-floor data (CSV).
Frequently asked questions
Is there a minimum salary for a CCP hire?
Yes, but it depends on the programme. SWDA asks only for pay at the market rate, and 60 of the 67 programme pages we read print their own fixed monthly floor, from S$2,300 to S$4,000. The most common figure is S$3,500. Check the floor on your programme's page on the government listing before you write the offer.
What if the fixed salary changes after the hire starts?
Support follows the actual fixed salary from the month the change takes effect. ASME's example raises a hire from S$3,500 to S$4,000 after probation, and the monthly support rises with it, per the ASME FAQ. The floor is a condition of the offer, so agree any cut with the programme partner before it takes effect.
Does a salary above the cap still get support?
Yes. SWDA's FAQ says the employer still receives support, at the funding rate and up to the cap: S$5,000 a month at the standard rate or S$7,500 at the enhanced rate, per the SWDA factsheet. Pay above the cap is yours to fund, but it doesn't stop the support. Flexi-load and part-time roles have their own rules, covered in flexi-load and part-time CCP hires.
For the bigger picture, start with what CCP pays for a new hire, and for logistics roles see SCALA's logistics floors.
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How it works with us
- Check your eligibilityA few quick questions on your company, the role and the hire. Free, about a minute, no obligation. If you do not qualify, we will say so.
- Choose your optionPayment unlocks after the check. Both options and every fee are published on the pricing page.
- We build your caseAudit, documentation and an SWDA-ready training curriculum, prepared by us.
- We submit and see it throughWe submit and liaise with SWDA through to your approval letter. Approval takes 12–15 weeks, depending on SWDA, and salary support starts only once the letter is issued.
The better route: get the approval letter first, then hire. It stays valid for six months, so you are not paying a full salary while the application waits.
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