John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

What are wages like in the Philippines

22 Mar 2018 · 2 min

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Short conversational transcript from a YouTube video where John Jonas and a Filipino speaker discuss typical wages and working conditions in the Philippines. The speaker (from Iloilo) reports making about 10,000 Philippine pesos per month (~$200) working full time (8 hours/day, 6 days/week), and explains that wages in Manila are roughly double due to higher cost of living.

Questions this video answers

10,000 Philippine pesos per month

About $200 per month

About 8 hours per day, 6 days per week

Wages in Manila are roughly double those in Iloilo (higher due to higher cost of living).

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So my dad's getting married tomorrow and so I'm here at his house and his wife is from the Philippines. And so we're talking about culture and Philippines and salaries and stuff. And it's been really interesting to hear. So let's see what she has to say about it.
I'm working in a call center and I made like 10,000 per month. I work like eight hours a day, six days a week.
10,000 Filipino pesos per month, which is like $200 for full time work.
Yes.
Is that normal? Is this common? Is this uncommon?
For us from Iloilo, it's like it's common.
That's what most people are making.
Yeah. For the normal job.
For a normal job.
If you're in Manila, it's like you're making 200 more than when you were in Iloilo. So the cost of living in Manila is much more higher. So I think they pay the people that are working in cost center like yours is also doubled.
Like double what you would make in Iloilo.
Yes.
And other provinces like Davao or whatever. So Manila is like.
Because it's the center and the cost of living is high.
It's expensive.
It's expensive.