Low real wages, more expensive food (as of August 2024)

September 6, 2024

Labor productivity rises, wages remain low, big business benefits

May 2, 2024

Worker productivity increased significantly while the average minimum wage fell through the years. But employers have pocketed this growing productivity as profits for decades instead of giving workers the fair compensation that is due to them.

Wage hikes won’t slow down growth

February 28, 2024

Stagnant Real Wages, More Expensive Food

February 8, 2024

Falling real wages, more expensive food (as of October 2023)

November 7, 2023

Inflation reportedly eased in October 2023, but Filipinos’ wages and incomes still have not been keeping up with the price increases.

Falling real wages, more expensive food (as of September 2023)

October 10, 2023

Recent oil price rollbacks barely offset the several weeks of hikes. Should government be proactive and carry out the removal of fuel excise taxes, Filipino families will have money to curb the domino effect on increasing costs of living expenses.

Falling wages, more expensive food (August 2023)

September 5, 2023

Prices have increased in August and are still going up. With no proper regulation, insufficient or no direct support for small producers and no corresponding improvement in consumers’ purchasing power, things may be worse in September.

Php170 wage hike only 16.2% of enterprise profits

June 7, 2023

The family living wage is Php1,160 as of May 2023. However, minimum wages since wage regionalization in 1989 don’t just fall far short of the ever rising living wage — they haven’t even kept up with inflation.

Minimum wages today worth less than 34 years ago, even Php164 wage hike not enough–IBON

May 26, 2023

After 34 years the real value of the minimum wage has fallen 28% on average across all regions nationwide. This strengthens the argument for reverting to a nationally mandated wage hike.