Despite both the Employment Pass and the Work Permit are often named as “work permit”, they are actually absolutely different visas. Singapore is an employment destination for high-tier professionals and company directors as well as unskilled overseas manpower. To set these polar categories of employees apart and distribute privileges and restrictions justly according to the skills each category of manpower imports to Singapore, the government has developed different visas – the Employment Pass and the Work Permit. They have only a few features in common, and a huge gap of salary scope and benefits in between.
