The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is an essential element of Caribbean regional integration and integral to the Single Market is the movement of persons for economic activity and as consumers of services offered by Member States. One important category of persons who use the CSME for the purposes of engagement in economic activity is skilled workers who seek to work for a company or another person for a wage or salary. This is usually described as free movement of skills or free movement of skilled nationals.

This document contains the definitions of 12 categories of Wage Earners who are entitled to move and work freely in the Community as CARICOM Skilled Nationals.