Corporate Secretary Fees: What 9 Singapore Sites Show

An owner incorporating a company types "corporate secretarial services singapore fees" into Google. That is not our invention: it came back as a real autocomplete suggestion when we expanded the term on 20 September 2026. They click a firm's site, and there is no number anywhere on the page.

Of the nine Singapore corporate services firms' sites we could measure on 20 September 2026, one showed a fee on the page the buyer lands on. Every one of the nine offered a way to get in touch. So the sector is not hiding. It is asking every buyer to start a conversation before learning anything about cost, at exactly the moment the buyer is comparing three firms at once.

There is a second gap underneath it, and it is newer. ACRA changed what this job is called in its own register in June 2025. Six of the nine sites use neither the old term nor the new one.

Why firms leave the fee off the page

Because a corporate secretarial fee genuinely varies, and because a quote request is easier to control than a published number.

The variance is real. A dormant holding company with one director is not the same file as a company with foreign shareholders, a nominee director and a share transfer mid-year. Statutory work sits next to accounting, tax and payroll, and firms bundle them differently. A single number on a page invites the wrong comparison.

The control is the bigger reason, in our view. A form gives you the chance to explain scope before price. A published figure lets a buyer rule you out in four seconds without ever speaking to you.

Both arguments are honest. They also both lose to what the buyer is actually doing, which is opening four tabs and closing the ones that do not answer the question they typed.

What we measured on nine firm sites

We ran two searches through our own metasearch, took the firms' own sites out of the results, and checked one page per firm: the homepage, or the pricing page where our fee search surfaced one. We also ran a technical crawl of up to three pages per site. Counts are always given with their base.

What we checked	Result
A fee or "from" figure on the page a buyer lands on	1 of 9
A price anywhere we looked, including a linked pricing page	2 of 9
Opening paragraph names both the service and Singapore	6 of 9
A visible way to enquire (form, phone, WhatsApp or email)	9 of 9
At least one heading phrased as a question	3 of 9
Business-entity structured data on that page	6 of 9
A meta description on the homepage	7 of 9
Exactly one H1 on the homepage	8 of 9
Served over HTTPS with a readable robots.txt	9 of 9
Broken internal links among the links we checked	2 of 9 sites

The two prices we did find are worth writing down, because they are the only published anchors a buyer in this sector gets. One site published an annual company-secretary price of $159. One published a full starting-price list: a corporate secretary from S$800 a year, local incorporation from S$615, accounting from S$250 a month, each marked as excluding GST and government fees. Prices are quoted as the pages showed them on 20 September 2026 and will change.

That pricing page was also the only page in the sample that answered the follow-up questions in its own headings, including whether the prices were final and whether they included GST. It is the model, and eight of nine sites do not follow it.

Three openings never say what the firm does and where

Six of nine openings named both the service and Singapore in the first substantial paragraph. The three that missed each missed differently. One led with the year the practice was founded. One described Singapore's appeal as a place to do business. One named its services but never the market it serves.

The founding year is the interesting one, because it is a real credential being spent in the wrong place. A 1984 start date is proof. It is not an answer to "who files my annual return and what does that cost".

This matters more than it used to. The first paragraph is the passage a search engine or an AI assistant is most likely to lift, which is the same pattern we found across 109 local pages in our Singapore AI search readiness study. A paragraph about the country reads as a paragraph about the country.

Seven of 20 results for a fee search cannot answer it

We looked at what holds the page when someone searches for fees, using the 20 results our metasearch returned for "corporate secretarial services singapore fees".

Four were not a corporate services firm's page at all: a consumer classifieds listing, a video-hosting page, a global law firm's homepage and an unrelated lifestyle blog. Three more were a firm's own site but the wrong page type — a tag archive, an author archive, a blog index — pages that mention fees without stating any.

So 7 of the 20 results could not answer the question that was typed. That is the opening. A single page that states a starting fee, says what changes it, and says what is excluded has very little standing in its way. We made the same argument about who occupies these pages in best-of lists hold 28 of 60 slots.

ACRA changed the job title. Six of nine sites use neither

This is the finding we did not expect, and it is the cheapest thing on this page to fix.

Under the CSP Act, ACRA now registers these firms as corporate service providers. ACRA's own guidance states that "The CSP Act took effect on 9 June 2025" and that "If you provide corporate services, you must register by 9 December 2025". It also says that an existing registered filing agent "will be treated as a registered CSP automatically", though the firm must tell ACRA which corporate services it provides.

Read that carefully, because the point is not compliance. A firm still described as a registered filing agent is not doing anything wrong; ACRA says the registration carries over. The point is vocabulary. Three of the nine sites used "filing agent". One used "corporate service provider". Six used neither term anywhere on the page we checked.

A buyer who has just read ACRA's site arrives carrying the new words. A buyer who has been running a company since 2019 arrives carrying the old ones. A page that uses neither is harder for both of them, and harder for an AI assistant trying to match a firm to a regulated category. Naming both terms once, in a sentence that explains they refer to the same registration, costs one line.

While you are in there, the underlying rule is worth stating plainly on the page too. ACRA's guidance for a new local company says "A secretary must be appointed within six months of successful registration", that "The position cannot be empty for more than six months", and that otherwise "the director may face a fine of up to $1,000" (ACRA on appointing key personnel). Most sites in our sample assume the buyer already knows this. Six months and a named consequence is the whole reason the search happens.

This is marketing guidance, not legal advice. Check any statutory statement against ACRA's own pages before you publish it.

What I would do this week

Four things, in order, none needing a developer.

1. Put a starting fee on your main service page. One line: from S$X a year, for a company with these characteristics, excluding GST and government fees. If you truly cannot, publish the range and the three things that move it.
2. Rewrite the first paragraph. Name the service, name Singapore, name who it is for. Move the founding year to the second paragraph, where it works as proof.
3. Add both regulator terms once. "We are registered with ACRA as a corporate service provider, previously described as a registered filing agent." Then link ACRA.
4. Turn the three questions you answer on every enquiry call into three headings. Only 3 of 9 sites had a single question heading. The answers already exist in your inbox.

Then check the plumbing. Two of nine sites had dead internal links among the links we checked, and two had no meta description on the homepage. Our SEO guide for accounting firms in Singapore covers the service-page structure, and B2B SEO Singapore covers the longer decision that follows an enquiry.

What it costs you to publish a price

It costs you some enquiries, and that is the point of it.

Publish a starting fee and you will lose the buyer who was only ever going to choose on price. You will also lose the pleasure of anchoring in conversation. What you gain is that the enquiries you do get have already accepted your number, which shortens every call that follows.

Here is the part against our own interest. If your fee is above the market and you cannot explain why in one sentence, publishing it will cost you work, and no amount of search marketing will repair that. That is a pricing problem wearing a marketing costume. Fix the sentence first, or keep the fee off the page and know why it is off.

And the fixes above are an afternoon of your own time. You do not need an agency for any of them. What an agency is for is the part after: finding which of these searches your firm can realistically win, and measuring whether the new page changed anything.

Method and limits

Read these before quoting any number here.

• The searches. Two queries, "corporate secretarial services singapore fees" and "corporate secretarial services singapore", run on 20 September 2026 through SingRank's self-hosted SearXNG metasearch with an en-SG hint. This is blended Bing and Yandex ordering, not Google's ranking. Six to eight of its engines returned errors on both queries, so treat the result order as indicative only.
• The sample. We attempted 13 Singapore firm sites and measured 9. Four could not be measured: three did not finish our crawl inside its time limit and one did not respond. Global firms' international pages, directories, listicles, marketplaces and agency sites were excluded, as were archive and author pages.
• One page per firm for the reading checks. The homepage, or the pricing page where our fee search returned one. A firm may well publish a fee on a page we did not open.
• Up to three pages per firm for the technical crawl, five on the two sites crawled first, so page-level counts are reported as site-level findings. One sampled URL turned out to be an image file listed in a sitemap, and it is excluded from the page counts.
• Nine sites is a small sample. One site changing its homepage moves any figure here by 11 points.
• We did not measure rankings, backlinks, mobile performance scores, JavaScript-rendered content, or the quality of anyone's statutory work. Nothing here rates any firm.
• No business is named, and one result was replaced where it belonged to a business SingRank has worked for.

Prices and page contents describe 20 September 2026 and will change without notice.

Get these nine checks on your own site

Send us the one page that should win "corporate secretarial services singapore" or your equivalent, and we will run the same nine checks on it and tell you which to fix first. That starts as a free visibility check through our contact page. If you want the work done for you, our SEO, AEO and GEO programme starts from S$500/month.

What we will not do is promise you a ranking or an AI citation. Search engines and AI platforms choose their own answers.

These findings describe nine websites as they appeared on 20 September 2026. This page names no business and is not a rating of any firm. It is marketing guidance, not legal or professional advice.

FAQ

How much does a corporate secretary cost in Singapore?

We cannot give you a market average from nine sites. What we can report is that only two of the nine published anything: one an annual company-secretary price of $159, one a starting price of S$800 a year excluding GST and government fees. Ask any firm what moves their number.

Is a company secretary compulsory in Singapore?

ACRA's guidance for setting up a local company says a secretary must be appointed within six months of successful registration, that the position cannot be left empty for more than six months, and that otherwise the director may face a fine of up to $1,000. Check ACRA's page for the current rule.

Is "registered filing agent" still the right term?

Both terms are in use. ACRA registers these firms as corporate service providers under the CSP Act, which took effect on 9 June 2025, and says an existing registered filing agent is treated as a registered CSP automatically. In our view a website should name both once and explain they are the same registration.

Should a small firm publish its fees?

Usually yes, as a starting figure with the conditions attached. It filters out buyers who were never going to pay your rate and shortens the calls with those who will. The exception is a fee above the market that you cannot justify in one sentence.

Why use metasearch instead of Google for this?

Because every result can be saved and re-checked later, which a Google session cannot. The cost is accuracy of order: blended Bing and Yandex results are not Google's ranking, and several engines errored on the day. We use it for the shape of a page, never for ranking claims.

Can I cite these figures?

Yes. Please cite "SingRank, Corporate Secretary Fees: What 9 Singapore Sites Show" with the collection date of 20 September 2026, and quote each figure with its base, such as 1 of 9. If you think a number is wrong, tell us through our contact page and we will re-run the check.