Electrician Singapore Price List: Real Rates and Times

Key Takeaways

• A circuit breaker replacement costs S$150 in Singapore and takes about 2 hours, and a power trip diagnosis with power reinstated is S$90 in about 1 hour 15 minutes — the diagnosis is included in that price, not billed on top.
• Small electrical jobs are cheaper than most people expect: a light bulb replacement is S$15 and takes about 20 minutes, a switch or 3-pin plug replacement is S$49.
• A price list only helps if you know what it excludes — materials, and the faults nobody can quote until they have seen them.
• Hourly booking, from S$39, is better value when you have a list rather than one task: it is charged by time, not by task.
• Urban Company’s electrician category is rated 4.71 across 853 reviews, and you see the professional’s profile before they arrive.

The Quote That Never Arrives

A 4-room flat in Clementi, Saturday morning, and the power point behind the fridge has stopped working. You send 3 messages asking what a replacement costs. One reply says “need to see first”. One says “depends”. The third sends a number with nothing attached to it — no time, no mention of whether the socket itself is included. An hour of your Saturday is gone and you still cannot tell whether this is a small fixed-price job or a much bigger one. A real price list is worth more here than another page telling you to get 3 quotes.

What Does an Electrician Price List in Singapore Look Like?

It looks like a set of fixed prices per job, each with a duration attached. Here are the common household jobs with what Urban Company charges and how long they take:

Job	Price	Typical time
Light bulb replacement	S$15	20 mins
Wall fan replacement	S$37	30 mins
Switch / 3-pin plug replacement	S$49	20 mins
Ceiling fan replacement	S$55	45 mins
Downlight LED supply & installation	S$59	45 mins
Power trip resolution	S$90	1 hr 15 mins
New socket / power point installation	from S$90	—
Circuit breaker replacement	S$150	2 hrs

Rates do move, so treat this as a reference and check the full electrician price list and book an electrician in Singapore for current figures before you budget around them. If your job is not on the list, there is an hourly option from S$39 and a 60-minute consultation at S$14.

Why Do So Few Electricians Here Publish Their Rates?

Because a large share of electrical work is diagnosis-first, and a number quoted blind can be wrong in both directions. A tripping circuit is not a job — it is a symptom that could be a failing kettle, moisture in a socket, a damaged cable or a worn breaker. Those are 4 different repairs at 4 different prices, and nobody can tell them apart over WhatsApp. So a useful price list splits in two:

• Jobs that can be priced in advance. A fan swap, a bulb, a switch plate, a downlight — the scope is visible before anyone starts.
• Jobs where the visit is the diagnosis. A trip, a dead circuit, a socket with no power. Here the fixed price has to cover finding the fault as well as getting the power back on — which is exactly what the S$90 power trip resolution does. Parts are extra, and if the breaker itself has failed, that is a separate S$150 circuit breaker replacement.

What Does a Published Price Actually Cover?

Labour and time, and sometimes the part — never assume it is all three. This is where two honest quotes for the same job end up far apart, and it is worth asking about in one message before you book:

• Materials. Some services include the part. A downlight at S$59 is supply and installation, so the fitting is in the price. A ceiling fan replacement at S$55 is the work of swapping the fan — the fan itself is yours to buy.
• Diagnosis. On fault-finding jobs, check whether working out what is wrong sits inside the price. On the power trip job it does.
• The second fault. A visit booked to replace one socket does not silently cover a second one found behind the wardrobe. Ask how extra items are handled before the professional arrives.
• Time. A duration on a price list is typical, not a promise. A high ceiling or an awkward riser adds to it.

Is Hourly or Per-Job Pricing Better for an HDB Flat?

Per job wins for a single defined task; hourly wins the moment you have a list. Most HDB households doing an electrical tidy-up have 3 or 4 small things saved up — a dead switch in the corridor, a fan that wobbles, a socket that has never worked properly. Booked as separate tasks, each carries its own price. Booked by the hour from S$39, they share one visit, because the hourly option is charged by time, not by task.

The other case for hourly is uncertainty. If nobody yet knows what is wrong, a fixed quote is a guess wearing a number, and you carry the risk of it being wrong.

Which Jobs on This List Need a Licensed Electrical Worker?

Anything touching the fixed wiring. That work is regulated under the Electricity Act and licensed by the Energy Market Authority, and it requires a Licensed Electrical Worker (LEW). Urban Company references LEW for power-trip and circuit-breaker work specifically — the two jobs above where the work goes past the fitting and into the circuit itself.

It matters when you are reading rates: licensed work carries a cost the unlicensed version does not, so a circuit-level price far below everything else on the market is worth a question before it is worth a booking.

What Can You Do Yourself Instead of Booking?

More than most price lists would like you to think. A blown bulb is a bulb — change it. A dead plug top usually needs a new fuse, which costs a couple of dollars and takes a screwdriver. If a circuit has tripped once and reset cleanly, that is a one-off and not a repair.

Where it stops: the consumer unit, anything behind a wall, and any circuit that trips again after a reset. A repeat trip is the circuit reporting a fault, not a switch that needs flipping harder — and continuing to reset it is how a small electrical problem becomes a burnt cable. Never open a distribution board, and never work on fixed wiring yourself.

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