Payroll & HR
Employment Passes, S Passes and work permits: applications, renewals and cancellations handled with an eye on salary thresholds, COMPASS points, quotas and levies. Hiring across borders without the administrative anxiety.
The most expensive work pass mistake is making a job offer that cannot be approved. Employment Pass applications are scored under the COMPASS framework: salary against market benchmarks, qualifications, workforce diversity and support for local employment all earn or cost points. S Passes and work permits add quota and levy mathematics that change with your local headcount. We score the candidate before the offer goes out, so you negotiate knowing whether the pass is realistic, and what salary makes it so.
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Salary benchmarks plus the COMPASS points framework: qualifications, diversity and local employment support all count. We pre-score candidates before you commit to a hire.
EPs are typically processed within a few weeks; work permits are usually faster. Appeals take longer, which is why the first application matters most.
Timely notifications of changes, levy payments where applicable, salary consistency with the application, and IR21 tax clearance when the employee eventually leaves.
We review the rejection grounds, strengthen the case, salary, role definition, supporting documents, and appeal where the case is genuinely arguable. Sometimes the honest advice is a different pass type.
For S Passes and work permits, yes: your local workforce size sets the ceiling. We map the quota position before you recruit so the plan is real.
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Accounting, corporate secretarial, payroll and advisory for Singapore SMEs since 2012.
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