SINGAPORE - Cleaners will see their wages go up each year over six years, after proposals put forth by a tripartite committee on the cleaning wage ladder were accepted by the Government on Monday (June 7). From 2023 to 2028, the base wages of Singaporean and permanent resident cleaners across all job levels will see a year-on-year increase. This will benefit about 40,000 cleaners across some 1,500 cleaning businesses in Singapore. For example, the first adjustment in 2023 will see base wages of general and indoor cleaners increase by almost 20 per cent from $1,312 in 2022 to $1,570. The move is meant to narrow the income disparity of cleaners with other workers. Under previous updates to the progressive wage model (PWM) in 2016 and 2018, cleaners were slated to get 3 per cent annual wage increases from 2020 to 2022. The wage increases were among new recommendations made by the Tripartite Cluster for Cleaners (TCC), after it conducted another round of reviews of the model. NTUC assistant director-general Zainal Sapari, who chairs the TCC, said the latest six-year schedule for wage increases aims to provide transparency for cleaning companies and service buyers to apprise tender cont...