Singapore annual leave entitlement: eligibility and statutory minimums
Understand Singapore statutory annual leave eligibility, service-based minimum entitlements and how to keep company policy separate from the legal floor.
Reviewed: 21 September 2026
Statutory baseline
MOM states that employees covered by the Employment Act become entitled to paid annual leave after at least 3 months of service. The statutory minimum starts at 7 days in the first year of service and increases by one day for each additional year, reaching 14 days from the eighth year onward.
An employer may provide a more generous contractual entitlement. When configuring LeaveMaestro, the organisation's actual policy should be modelled rather than assuming the statutory minimum is every employee's company entitlement.
Why service dates matter
MOM measures the year of service from the employee's start date. Accurate join dates are therefore important both when reviewing statutory eligibility and when configuring entitlement rules in a leave system.