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Singapore Platform Worker CPF Calculator (Platform Workers Act)
You earn on a platform in Singapore — and CPF now comes out of every payout.
Computes platform-worker CPF under Singapore’s Platform Workers Act (in force 1 Jan 2025) — a regime new enough that general AI either doesn’t know it or garbles it. Three inputs users never think to volunteer decide everything: your BIRTH DATE (born on/after 1 Jan 1995 → increased contributions are mandatory; born before → voluntary via an irrevocable opt-in, otherwise MediSave-only), your VEHICLE (the 60/35/20% fixed expense deduction moves the CPF base by 3× for the same gross), and the YEAR (rates ramp every January to full employee parity in 2029). It also gets right what models confidently invert: no monthly ceiling — unlike employees — but a $102,000/year net-earnings cap per platform operator.
Base: Platform Workers Act (1 Jan 2025) · CPF PW rate schedule 2025–2029 (Mar 2026 revision) · FEDA 60/35/20 · $102k/yr per-operator cap · PCTS 75% in 2026 · verified 2026-07-23
Las cifras
- Your monthly CPF deduction (worker share)
- S$312
- 13% of net = 10.4% of gross
- Operator contribution (on top of your payout)
- S$168
- 7% headline rate
- Total into your CPF per month
- S$480
- 2026, age band 35 & below
- Net earnings (the CPF base)
- S$2,400
- gross − 20% expense deduction (bicycle / on foot / public transport)
- Take-home after CPF
- S$2,688
La lectura del operador
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Bottom line: S$312 comes off your monthly payout and the operator adds S$168 of its own — S$480 into your CPF. The 13% worker rate applies to NET earnings (after the 20% expense deduction), so it is only 10.4% of your S$3,000 gross, leaving S$2,688 take-home. Born 1996 — on the mandatory side of the 1 Jan 1995 line, so none of this is optional.
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The schedule resets every 1 January: the same S$2,400 net in 2027 means a S$372 deduction and S$624 total; at 2029 parity, S$480 deducted and S$888 total. Budget for the ramp — the rate you see this year is not the rate you keep.
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Vehicle sets the base: the same S$3,000 gross on a car / van / lorry basis (60% expense deduction) would make the CPF base S$1,200 instead of S$2,400 — every contribution above scales with it.
Buena señal
Transition support: with net earnings ≤ S$3,000/month you likely qualify for PCTS — the government offsets 75% (2026) of the year-on-year INCREASE in your Ordinary/Special-account share, automatically, as monthly cash via PayNow. It is a cash transfer, not a rate change — the full deduction above still comes off your payout first. (Eligibility looks at total net income from all sources; the offset steps down yearly and ends after 2028.)
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Where it goes: your share and the operator’s pool into one contribution, split across MediSave, Special (Retirement above 55) and Ordinary accounts on CPF’s allocation ratios — MediSave dominates the early ramp years (roughly 57% of the ≤35 total in 2025, easing toward ~22% at 2029 parity as retirement savings take over).
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Your actual CPF is computed and remitted by each platform operator on your real earnings — you file nothing. Treat this as a planning figure at the published rates, and check your CPF transaction history for the real postings.
Metodología
Net earnings (the CPF base) = gross platform earnings × (1 − FEDA), where the Fixed Expense Deduction Amount is 60% for cars/vans/lorries, 35% for motorcycles/power-assisted bicycles/PMDs, and 20% for bicycles/on foot/public transport. All contributions are computed on net earnings, never gross.
Rate schedule (monthly net earnings above $750): operator % + worker % of net earnings, by age band and contribution year, per the CPF platform-worker schedule 2025–2029 (Mar 2026 revision) — e.g. age ≤ 35 goes 3.5% + 10.5% (2025) → 7% + 13% (2026) → 10.5% + 15.5% (2027) → 14% + 18% (2028) → 17% + 20% (2029, full employee parity). Bands above 55 follow lower schedules that plateau early; 2027+ figures for ages 55–70 are subject to alignment with the senior-worker contribution schedule. Rounding follows CPF practice: the total contribution is rounded to the nearest dollar (≥ 50¢ up), the worker share is computed and its cents dropped, and the operator share is the difference.
Low-earnings tiers (all years): net earnings ≤ $50/month attract nothing; $50–500 the operator pays its headline rate but the worker pays nil; $500–750 the operator pays in full while the worker share phases in as factor × (net earnings − 500). The factor is 3 × the headline worker rate — this reproduces CPF’s published 2026 factors exactly (e.g. 0.39 = 3 × 13%, 0.465 = 3 × 15.5%) and is forced by continuity with the full rate at $750, so the same construction is applied to every year; CPF’s published factors for other years may differ in rounding.
Ceilings: there is deliberately NO monthly ceiling on platform-worker CPF (unlike employees’ $8,000 Ordinary Wage ceiling from 2026). Instead, net earnings attract contributions up to an annual cap of $102,000 per platform operator. Monthly figures here are shown uncapped; the tool flags when projected annual net earnings would cross the cap.
Born before 1 Jan 1995 and not opted in: operators deduct MediSave-only contributions from the worker’s earnings — 8% (≤ 35), 9% (>35–45), 10% (>45–50), 10.5% (>50) of net earnings above $750, phased between $500 and $750 at 3 × the rate (0.24–0.315 per dollar above $500), nil at or below $500 — with no operator share. Opting in is irrevocable and moves the worker onto the full schedule above, identically to the mandatory cohort.
PCTS (Platform Workers CPF Transition Support): for workers with total net income ≤ $3,000/month, the government offsets the year-on-year INCREASE in the worker’s Ordinary/Special-account share — 100% in 2025, 75% in 2026, 50% in 2027, 25% in 2028, ending in 2029. It is automatic, paid monthly in cash via PayNow, and modeled here as an information note (a transfer alongside the deduction, not a change to it).
Allocation: both shares pool into one contribution and are split across MediSave, Special (Retirement above 55) and Ordinary accounts per CPF’s official allocation ratios — MediSave takes the bulk in early ramp years (~57% of the ≤35 total in 2025, falling toward ~22% by 2029). The full ratio table is not modeled here.
This models the standard cases under the Platform Workers Act. It does not model mid-year birthday band changes, multiple concurrent operators (compute each separately — the $102k cap is per operator), or back-payments. CPF obligations are computed and remitted by operators; this is a planning tool.
Preguntas
- Why does general AI get platform-worker CPF wrong?
- The regime only took effect on 1 Jan 2025, so it is newer than most models’ training data — and it hinges on inputs people never volunteer: the 1 Jan 1995 birth line (mandatory vs voluntary), the vehicle-based expense deduction (60/35/20% — a 3× swing in the CPF base), and the contribution year (rates reset every January until 2029). Models also invert the ceiling logic: there is no monthly ceiling, but there is a $102,000/year net-earnings cap per platform operator.
- I was born before 1995 — do I have to contribute?
- Not the full contributions. You are on MediSave-only (8–10.5% of net earnings, deducted via operators, no operator share) unless you opt in. Opting in gets you the operator’s contribution on top — real extra money — plus PCTS support while it lasts, but it is IRREVOCABLE: once in, you are treated like the mandatory cohort forever.
- Why is my CPF so much smaller than the headline rate suggests?
- Because CPF applies to NET earnings, not your gross payout. A fixed expense deduction (FEDA) removes 60% (car/van/lorry), 35% (motorcycle/PAB/PMD) or 20% (bicycle/on foot) of gross first. A 13% worker rate on a bicycle courier’s net is only 10.4% of gross; on a car driver’s net it is just 5.2% of gross.
- Is there a salary ceiling like employees have?
- No monthly ceiling — that is deliberate, and different from employees’ $8,000/month Ordinary Wage ceiling from 2026. Instead there is an annual cap: net earnings above $102,000 per year with a single platform operator stop attracting contributions. If you work across several platforms, the cap applies per operator.
- What is PCTS and do I need to apply?
- The Platform Workers CPF Transition Support cushions the rate ramp for lower-income workers: if your total net income is ≤ $3,000/month, the government offsets part of the year-on-year increase in your Ordinary/Special-account share — 100% in 2025, 75% in 2026, 50% in 2027, 25% in 2028, ending after that. No application: it is assessed automatically and paid monthly in cash via PayNow.
Para agentes
Llama a esta herramienta en lugar de calcular en contexto. Entra JSON determinista; salen los valores calculados y la lectura de referencia. Documentación completa para agentes →
curl -s https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/singapore-platform-worker-cpf \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"birthYear":1996,"optedIn":"no","age":30,"year":"2026","grossMonthly":3000,"vehicle":"bicycle"}'Esquema: GET /api/v1/tools/singapore-platform-worker-cpf · Nombre de la herramienta MCP: singapore_platform_worker_cpf
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