PH inflation highest in region; purchasing power not keeping up—IBON

July 6, 2023

NEWS

The Philippines has the highest inflation in Southeast Asia and Filipinos’ purchasing power is not keeping up.

Marcos Jr’s first year passes without a wage hike, while NCR hike in July still paltry — IBON

July 3, 2023

The Marcos Jr administration cannot tout the NCR wage hike as an additional accomplishment to report on its first year. The new NCR wage is still so much lower than demanded by workers, than the FLW for a more decent standard of living, and even less than the increase in worker productivity, and the plight of millions more low-income self-employed and other informal sector workers and unemployed Filipinos remains unaddressed.

IBON Poverty Wages Feature

June 25, 2023

Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the rather low-standard official poverty threshold for a family of five. In other words, Philippine minimum wages are family poverty wages.

NCR family living wage as of May 2023

June 21, 2023

A minimum wage hike is just, urgent and doable as the current mandated minimum wage is not enough for Filipino workers and their families to meet their basic needs. In the NCR, the Php570 daily minimum wage is less than half or 49.1% of the Php1,160 family living wage for a family of five, as […]

NCR family living wage as of April 2023

May 9, 2023

Despite declining in April, the 6.6% headline inflation continues to eat away the unchanged minimum wage. Short-term solutions like removing consumption taxes and mandating wage hikes are urgently needed.

PH minimum wages are family poverty wages – IBON

April 28, 2023

Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the official poverty threshold for a family of five.

Growing clamor for wage hike echoes urgency, justness and doability — IBON

March 31, 2023

Recently proposed legislation and petitions for a wage hike affirm that this is urgent, just and doable. Amid the poor jobs situation, low incomes and high prices, the minimum wage has not been enough for many Filipino families to live decently.

Minimum wage vs family living wage per region as of February 2023

March 10, 2023

Inflation in areas outside NCR has gone down slightly to 8.5% in February. Yet, with minimum wages unchanged, the gap with the family living wage is still widening across the regions — with the worst shortfall in BARMM where the minimum wage is just 17.5% of the family living wage.

NCR family living wage as of February 2023

March 10, 2023

The tiny decline of headline inflation to 8.6% in February 2023 is statistically insignificant and the highest inflation in 14 years is still eating away at the unchanged minimum wage. It’s even worse for the poorest 30% of the population who are battling 9.7% inflation which is the same as in January and the highest […]