NCR minimum wage

The family living wage (as of October 2022)

Nobyembre 9, 2022

The urgency for a substantial wage increase, ample cash assistance for the poor and subsidies for vulnerable sectors become all the more glaring as the cost of living rises with soaring inflation.

Falling real wages, more expensive food

Oktubre 14, 2022

Despite a recent wage hike, real wages for many Filipinos are declining amid high food prices.

Real wages fall as inflation spikes

Hunyo 9, 2022

Higher May inflation pushed the real value of wages to even lower levels and is making basic food and transport services even more unaffordable. Inflation far outpaces the outgoing Duterte administration’s wage hikes and wage earners are worse off now than six years ago.

Purchasing power of NCR minimum wage still falls

Mayo 18, 2022

Price increases cause insufficient wages to further erode

NCR minimum wage barely half of family living wage

Mayo 18, 2022

NCR minimum wage increased but still falls short of living wage

Inflation makes NCR family living wage rise to Php1,087

Mayo 5, 2022

The NCR minimum wage is falling even further behind the FLW and a meaningful increase is more urgent than ever for genuinely inclusive recovery.

Under Duterte: least and lowest wage hikes in 36 years

Mayo 1, 2022

Substantial wage increase should be among the priorities of the next administration.

Wage hike possible with transparency, gov’t support

Abril 9, 2022

If employers are transparent about their revenues and net incomes this will likely show that large corporations and even many medium enterprises can hike wages with only a small cut on their profits. Government can meanwhile provide wage subsidies and other forms of support to MSMEs who cannot yet afford this.