Wages in Philippines increased to 13487.30 PHP/Month in 2018 from 12646 PHP/Month in 2017. This dataset provides - Philippines Wage Index - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Minimum Wages in Philippines remained unchanged at 645 PHP/day in 2025 from 645 PHP/day in 2024. This dataset provides - Philippines Minimum Wages- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

As of January 2025, the National Capital Region (NCR) or Metro Manila registered the highest real minimum wage at 516.47 Philippine pesos per day. This was followed by Region IV-A or CALABARZON with a minimum wage of 436.14 Philippine pesos per day.

Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers data was reported at 26,567.000 Person th in Jul 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 26,079.000 Person th for Apr 2018. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers data is updated quarterly, averaging 20,089.000 Person th from Jul 2003 (Median) to Jul 2018, with 61 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 26,567.000 Person th in Jul 2018 and a record low of 16,066.000 Person th in Oct 2003. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Philippine Statistics Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G013: Labour Force Survey: Employment: by Industry, Occupation and Class.

Philippines Real Minimum Daily Wage Rate: 1988 Prices: NCR: Non Agricultural data was reported at 66.870 PHP in Dec 1998. This records an increase from the previous number of 66.850 PHP for Nov 1998. Philippines Real Minimum Daily Wage Rate: 1988 Prices: NCR: Non Agricultural data is updated monthly, averaging 68.170 PHP from Jun 1989 (Median) to Dec 1998, with 115 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 81.830 PHP in Jan 1991 and a record low of 58.720 PHP in Jun 1989. Philippines Real Minimum Daily Wage Rate: 1988 Prices: NCR: Non Agricultural data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Wages and Productivity Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G020: Nominal and Real Minimum Daily Wage: National Capital Region. Rebased from 1988p to 1994p Replacement series ID: 34097801

As of 2020, the average monthly salary in the Philippines was approximately 45 thousand Philippine pesos. In that same period, the annual average wage in the country was 535 thousand Philippine pesos.

Philippines Nominal Minimum Daily Wage Rate: NCR: Agri: Non Plantation data was reported at 500.000 PHP in Nov 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 475.000 PHP for Oct 2018. Philippines Nominal Minimum Daily Wage Rate: NCR: Agri: Non Plantation data is updated monthly, averaging 243.000 PHP from Jun 1989 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 354 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 500.000 PHP in Nov 2018 and a record low of 43.500 PHP in Jun 1989. Philippines Nominal Minimum Daily Wage Rate: NCR: Agri: Non Plantation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Wages and Productivity Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G020: Nominal and Real Minimum Daily Wage: National Capital Region.

Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: Private Establishment data was reported at 20,816.000 Person th in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 20,721.000 Person th for Jul 2018. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: Private Establishment data is updated quarterly, averaging 15,073.500 Person th from Jul 2003 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 20,816.000 Person th in Oct 2018 and a record low of 11,639.000 Person th in Jul 2003. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: Private Establishment data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Philippine Statistics Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G013: Labour Force Survey: Employment: by Industry, Occupation and Class.

In 2023, wage and salary workers made up **** percent of total employment in the Philippines, indicating a slight increase from the previous year. In the same year, around **** percent of the employed population were self-employed in the country.

Wages in Manufacturing in Philippines increased to 121.81 points in the fourth quarter of 2020 from 121.65 points in the third quarter of 2020. This dataset provides - Philippines Wages in Manufacturing Index - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: Government data was reported at 3,688.000 Person th in Jul 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,452.000 Person th for Apr 2018. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: Government data is updated quarterly, averaging 2,952.000 Person th from Jul 2003 (Median) to Jul 2018, with 61 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,688.000 Person th in Jul 2018 and a record low of 2,269.000 Person th in Oct 2003. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: Government data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Philippine Statistics Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G013: Labour Force Survey: Employment: by Industry, Occupation and Class.

In 2022, female time-rated workers on a full-time basis in the Philippines earned more than their male counterparts. In particular, female workers earned a median monthly basic pay of 14,916 Philippine pesos while male workers earned 500 Philippine pesos less.

In 2022, the median monthly wage rate of time-rated full-time workers in the Philippines amounted to ****** Philippine pesos. This reflects a significant increase for this type of worker in 2020. In that year, aircraft pilots and related associate professionals were the highest paid occupations in the country.

Philippines Average Daily Basic Pay (ADBP) data was reported at 427.760 PHP in Jan 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 423.890 PHP for Oct 2017. Philippines Average Daily Basic Pay (ADBP) data is updated quarterly, averaging 348.750 PHP from Jan 2009 (Median) to Jan 2018, with 37 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 427.760 PHP in Jan 2018 and a record low of 285.620 PHP in Jan 2009. Philippines Average Daily Basic Pay (ADBP) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Philippine Statistics Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G022: Average Daily Basic Pay: by Industry, Occupation and Class. Basic Pay refers to pay for normal/regular working time before deductions for employees' social security contributions and withholding taxes. It excludes overtime, night shift differential and other premium pay; commissions, tips and share of employees in service charges; and payments in kind.

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Abstract

A. Objectives

To generate statistics for wage and salary administration and for wage determination in collective bargaining negotiations.

B. Uses of Data

Inputs to wage, income, productivity and price policies, wage fixing and collective bargaining; occupational wage rates can be used to measure wage differentials, wage inequality in typical low wage and high wage occupations and for international comparability; industry data on basic pay and allowance can be used to measure wage differentials across industries, for investment decisions and as reference in periodic adjustments of minimum wages.

C. Main Topics Covered

Occupational wage rates Median basic pay and median allowances of time-rate workers on full-time basis

Geographic coverage

National coverage, 17 administrative egions

Analysis unit

Establishment

Universe

The survey covered non-agricultural establishments employing 20 or more workers except national postal activities, central banking, public administration and defense and compulsory social security, public education services, public medical, dental and other health services, activities of membership organizations, extra territorial organizations and bodies.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

Statistical unit: The statistical unit is the establishment. Each unit is classified to an industry that reflects its main economic activity---the activity that contributes the biggest or major portion of the gross income or revenues of the establishment.

Survey universe/Sampling frame: The 2004 BLES Survey Sampling Frame (SSF2004) is a list frame of establishments that is a partial update of the 2003 BLES Sampling Frame based on the status of establishments reported in the 2003 BLES Integrated Survey (BITS) conducted nationwide.

Reports on closures and retrenchments of establishments submitted to the Regional Offices of the Department of Labor and Employment in December 2003 and January 2004 were also considered in updating the 2004 frame.

Sampling design: The OWS is a complete enumeration of non-agricultural establishments employing 50 persons or more. The design does not consider the region as a domain to allow for more industry coverage.

Sample size: For 2004 OWS, number of establishments covered was 8,779 of which, 6,827 were eligible units.

Note: Refer to Field Operations Manual Chapter 1 Section 1.5.

Sampling deviation

While the OWS is a complete enumeration survey, not all of the fielded questionnaires are accomplished. Due to the inadequacy of the frame used, there are reports of permanent closures, nonlocation, duplicate listing and shifts in industry and employment outside the survey coverage. Establishments that fall in these categories are not eligible elements of the frame and their count is not considered in the estimation. In addition to non-response of establishments because of refusals, strikes or temporary closures, there are establishments whose questionnaires contain inconsistent item responses that are not included in the processing as these have not replied to the verification queries by the time output table generation commences. Such establishments are also considered as non-respondents.

Respondents are post-stratified as to geographic, industry and employment size classifications. Non-respondents are retained in their classifications. Sample values of basic pay and allowances for the monitored occupations whose basis of payment is an hour or a day are converted into a standard monthly equivalent, assuming 313 working days and 8 hours per day. Daily rate x 26.08333; Hourly rate x 208.66667.

Mode of data collection

Other [oth] mixed method: self-accomplished, mailed, face-to-face

Research instrument

The questionnaire contains the following sections:

Cover Page (Page 1) This contains the address box, contact particulars for assistance, spaces for changes in the name and location of sample establishment and head office information in case the questionnaire is endorsed to it and status codes of the establishment to be accomplished by BLES and its field personnel.

Survey Information (Page 2) This contains the survey objective and uses of the data, scope of the survey, confidentiality clause, collection authority, authorized field personnel, coverage, periodicity and reference period, due date for accomplishment and expected date when the results of the 2006 OWS would be available.

Part A: General Information (Page 3) This portion inquires on main economic activity, major products/goods or services and total employment.

Part B: Employment and Wage Rates of Time Rate Workers on Full Time Basis (Pages 4-5) This section requires data on the number of time-rate workers on full-time basis by time unit and by basic pay and allowance intervals.

Part C: Employment and Wage Rates of Time Rate Workers on Full Time Basis in Selected Occupations (Pages 6-9) This part inquires on the basic pay and allowance per time unit and corresponding number of workers in the two benchmark occupations and in the pre-determined occupations listed in the occupational sheet to be provided to the establishment where applicable.

Part D: Certification (Page 10) This portion is provided for the respondent's name/signature, position, telephone no., fax no. and e-mail address and time spent in answering the questionnaire.

Appropriate spaces are also provided to elicit comments on data provided for the 2006 OWS; results of the 2004 OWS; and presentation/packaging, particularly on the definition of terms, layout, font and color

Part E: Survey Personnel (Page 10) This portion is for the particulars of the enumerators and area/regional supervisors and reviewers at the BLES and DOLE Regional Offices involved in the data collection and review of questionnaire entries.

Part F: Industries With Selected Occupations (Page 11) The list of industries for occupational wage monitoring has been provided to guide the enumerators in determining the correct occupational sheet that should be furnished to the respondent.

Results of the 2004 OWS (Page 12) The results of the 2004 OWS are found on page 12 of the questionnaire. These results can serve as a guide to the survey personnel in editing/review of the entries in the questionnaire.

Note: Refer to questionnaire and List of Monitored Occupations.

Cleaning operations

Data are manually and electronically processed. Upon collection of accomplished questionnaires, enumerators perform field editing before leaving the establishments to ensure completeness, consistency and reasonableness of entries in accordance with the field operations manual. The forms are again checked for data consistency and completeness by their field supervisors.

The BLES personnel undertake the final review, coding of information on classifications used, data entry and validation and scrutiny of aggregated results for coherence. Questionnaires with incomplete or inconsistent entries are returned to the establishments for verification, personally or through mail.

Note: Refer to Field Operations Manual Chapter 1 Section 1.10.

Response rate

The response rate in terms of eligible units was 82.1%.

Sampling error estimates

Estimates of the sampling errors are not computed.

Data appraisal

The survey results are checked for consistency with the results of previous OWS data and the minimum wage rates corresponding to the reference period of the survey.

Average wage rates of unskilled workers by region is compared for proximity with the corresponding minimum wage rates during the survey reference period.

In 2023, the minimum monthly wage in the Philippines was reported to have increased to ****** U.S. dollars from ***** in the previous year. The country's labor market has shown signs of recovery following the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: With Pay in Own Family Business data was reported at 211.000 Person th in Feb 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 106.000 Person th for Jan 2025. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: With Pay in Own Family Business data is updated monthly, averaging 160.500 Person th from Jan 2021 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 50 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 312.000 Person th in Nov 2022 and a record low of 76.000 Person th in Dec 2024. Philippines Employment: Wage & Salary Workers: With Pay in Own Family Business data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Philippine Statistics Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G025: Labour Force Survey: Employment: by Industry, Occupation and Class.

Abstract

The Occupational Wages Survey (OWS) generates statistics for wage and salary administration and for wage determination in collective bargaining negotiations. This nationwide biennial survey covers establishments employing at least 20 workers.

The OWS is one of the designated statistical activities in E.O. 352 (s.1996) that designates those critical for decision making by the government and the private sector. Moreover, the data category average monthly occupational wage rates in selected occupation is among those listed by the Philippine government under the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) of the International Monetary Fund. The SDDS serves as reference to member countries in the dissemination of economic and financial data to the public.

Geographic coverage

National coverage, 17 administrative regions

Analysis unit

Establishment

Universe

The survey covers agricultural and non-agricultural establishments employing 20 or more workers except central banking, public administration and defense and compulsory social security, public education services, public medical, dental and other health services, activities of membership organizations, activities of households as employers of domestic personnel, undifferentiated goods-and-services-producing activities of households for own use and activities of extra-territorial organizations and bodies.

Pre-determined industries for wage monitoring now total to 50 due to the inclusion of agriculture, forestry and fishery; and the splitting and merging of original domains with the adoption of the 2009 PSIC.

Inclusion of new domains: - Crop and Animal Production, Hunting and Related Service Activities; Forestry and Logging (A01/A02) - Fishing and Aquaculture (A03) - Manufacture of Basic Pharmaceutical Products and Pharmaceutical Preparation (C21)

Splitting of original domains: - Publishing and Printing (D221/D222/D223 of 1994 PSIC as amended) into Printing and Reproduction of Recorded Media (C18); and Publishing Activities (J58) - Supporting and Auxiliary Transport Activities; Activities of Travel Agencies (I63 of 1994 PSIC as amended) into Warehousing and Support Activities for Transportation (H52); and Travel Agency, Tour Operator, Reservation Service and Related Activities (N79)

Merging of original domains: - Banking Institutions except Central Banking (J65 excl. J6510 of 1994 PSIC as amended) and Non-Bank Financial Intermediation (J66 of 1994 PSIC as amended) into Financial Service Activities except Insurance, Pension Funding and Central Banking (K64 excl. K6411)

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Statistical unit: The statistical unit is the establishment. Each unit is classified to an industry that reflects its main economic activity---the activity that contributes the biggest or major portion of the gross income or revenues of the establishment.

Survey universe/Sampling frame: The 2014 BLES Survey Sampling Frame (2014 SSF) is an integrated list of establishments culled from the updated 2012 BLES Survey Sampling Frame based on the status of establishments reported in the 2011/2012 BLES Integrated Survey (BITS) and 2012 Occupational Wages Survey (OWS). Other sources were Lists of Establishments from the National Statistics Office (2012), DOLE Regional Office IV-B,and the BLES Job Displacement Monitoring System (JDMS).

Sampling design: The OWS is a sample survey of agricultural and non-agricultural establishments employing 20 persons or more where the survey domain is the industry. Those establishments employing at least 200 persons are covered with certainty and the rest are sampled (stratified random sampling). The design does not consider the region as a domain to allow for detailed industry groupings.

Sample size: For 2014 OWS, the number of establishments covered was 8,399, of which, 6,595 were eligible units.

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

Research instrument

The questionnaire contains the following sections:

Cover Page (Page 1) This contains the address box, contact particulars for assistance, spaces for changes in the name and location of sample establishment and head office information in case the questionnaire is endorsed to it and status codes of the establishment to be accomplished by PSA and its field personnel.

Survey Information (Page 2) This contains the survey objective and uses of the data, scope of the survey, confidentiality clause, collection authority, authorized field personnel, coverage, periodicity and reference period, due date for accomplishment and expected date when the results of the 2014 OWS would be available.

Part A: General Information (Page 3) This portion inquires on main economic activity, major products/goods or services and total employment.

Part B: Employment and Wage Rates of Time-Rate Workers on Full-Time Basis (Pages 4-5) This section requires data on the number of time-rate workers on full-time basis by time unit and by basic pay and allowance intervals.

Part C: Employment and Wage Rates of Time-Rate Workers on Full-Time Basis in Selected Occupations (Pages 6-9) This part inquires on the basic pay and allowance per time unit and corresponding number of workers in the two benchmark occupations and in the pre-determined occupations listed in the occupational sheet to be provided to the establishment where applicable.

Part D: Certification (Page 10) This portion is provided for the respondent's name/signature, position, telephone no., fax no. and e-mail address and time spent in answering the questionnaire.

Appropriate spaces are also provided to elicit comments on data provided for the 2014 OWS; results of the 2012 OWS; and presentation/packaging, particularly on the definition of terms, layout, font and color.

Part E: Survey Personnel (Page 10) This portion is for the particulars of the enumerators and area/regional supervisors and reviewers at the PSA Central Office and PSA Field Offices involved in the data collection and review of questionnaire entries.

Part F: Industries With Selected Occupations (Page 11) The list of industries for occupational wage monitoring has been provided to guide the enumerators in ensuring that the correct occupational sheet has been furnished to the respondent.

Selected Statistics from 2012 OWS (Page 12) The results of the 2012 OWS are found on page 12 of the questionnaire. These results can serve as a guide to the survey personnel in editing/review of the entries in the questionnaire.

Cleaning operations

Data are manually and electronically processed. Upon collection of accomplished questionnaires, enumerators perform field editing before leaving the establishments to ensure completeness, consistency and reasonableness of entries in accordance with the field operations manual. The forms are again checked for data consistency and completeness by their field supervisors.

The LSRSD personnel undertake the final review, coding of information on classifications used, data entry and validation and scrutiny of aggregated results for coherence. Questionnaires with incomplete or inconsistent entries are returned to the establishments for verification, personally or through mail.

Response rate

The response rate in terms of eligible units was 87.2%.

Data appraisal

The survey results are checked for consistency with the results of previous OWS data and the minimum wage rates corresponding to the reference period of the survey.

Average wage rates of unskilled workers by region is compared for proximity with the corresponding minimum wage rates during the survey reference period.

Philippines Real Minimum Daily Wage Rate: 1994 Prices: NCR: Agri: Plantation data was reported at 137.265 PHP in Dec 2004. This records a decrease from the previous number of 139.080 PHP for Nov 2004. Philippines Real Minimum Daily Wage Rate: 1994 Prices: NCR: Agri: Plantation data is updated monthly, averaging 132.719 PHP from Jan 1995 (Median) to Dec 2004, with 120 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 145.946 PHP in Feb 2002 and a record low of 118.421 PHP in Jan 1996. Philippines Real Minimum Daily Wage Rate: 1994 Prices: NCR: Agri: Plantation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Wages and Productivity Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G020: Nominal and Real Minimum Daily Wage: National Capital Region. Rebased from 1994p to 2000p Replacement series ID: 304902201