Debated in Parliament on 5 Mar 2015.
Ms Irene Ng Phek Hoong asked the Minister for Manpower (a) how many taxi drivers, including relief taxi drivers, are there currently; (b) of these, how many are active taxi drivers on the roads; (c) what is their (i) average annual salary; (ii) average educational qualification; (iii) age profile; and (d) how many have been formerly working in PMET jobs and switched to driving taxis.
As at December 2014, about 98,000 Singaporeans held a Taxi Driver’s Vocational Licence. About 56,000 of them were registered with taxi companies. The average net monthly earnings, less expenses, of taxi drivers in 2014 was $3,173 for a single-shift operation, and $5,933 for a two-shift operation.
Of the employed resident taxi drivers in 20141, about eight in 10 were aged 50 and above, and over nine in 10 possessed non-tertiary educational qualifications. We do not have data on how many taxi drivers were formerly in Professional, Managerial, Executive and Technical (PMET) jobs.
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