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What tipping is and is not customary in Singapore, with the 10% service charge and 9% GST '++' pricing worked out on your bill.
This guide sets out where tipping is and is not customary in Singapore and works the '++' pricing out of your bill: a 10% service charge, then 9% GST on top, a combined uplift of about 19.9% on the menu price. The short answer is that tipping is not part of the culture — the service charge is the gratuity, hawker centres add nothing to the price on the sign, and tipping is not permitted at Changi Airport. The narrow exceptions are private tour guides and porters at luxury hotels.
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Shows the true till price after a 10% service charge and 9% GST are compounded onto the menu figure.
Marks hawker centres, cafés, taxis and Changi Airport as genuine no-tip settings rather than inventing a rate.
Private guides, luxury-hotel porters and difficult concierge requests, with realistic amounts.
Generally no. Full-service restaurants and hotels add a 10% service charge that functions as the gratuity, hawker centres charge exactly the price on the sign, and taxi fares are metered with no tip expected. Tipping is explicitly not permitted at Changi Airport. Private tour guides and luxury-hotel porters are the main exceptions.
It means a 10% service charge and then GST are added to the printed price at the till. GST has been 9% since 1 January 2024, and because it is charged on the service-charged amount, the two compound: a $100 '++' dish costs $100 × 1.10 × 1.09 = $119.90. A price marked 'nett' already includes both and is what you actually pay.
It functions as one, in that it is the customary gratuity and nothing further is expected. How much of it reaches individual staff is up to the venue, and there is no legal requirement to distribute it, but the social convention is firm: with the service charge on the bill, you are done.
No. Metered fares already include surcharges for peak periods, airport pickups and CBD entry, and drivers commonly round the fare down rather than expecting it rounded up. Paying the metered amount is entirely normal and no driver will think anything of it.
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