In one paragraph
Sweldex is a monthly index of advertised pay in the Philippines. Every day it collects job postings from 9 Philippine job boards; once a month it publishes the median of the postings that state a salary, broken down by role and city, together with the share of ads that state pay at all. Unlike salary sites built on self-reported figures, every number traces to a public job posting. Each board is reported on its own and the boards are never added together — a single combined index was published until September 2026 and withdrawn, because it tracked how much of each board had been collected rather than what employers pay. It is free, requires no sign-up, blurs nothing, and the underlying figures are published as CSV under CC BY 4.0.
Headline figures · October 2026
Advertised pay before deductions, not take-home. Groups under 10 postings are not published.
Most-collected roles · Metro Manila, local employers
| Role | Median | Lower quarter | Upper quarter | Ads with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Service (BPO) | ₱24,000 | ₱21,500 | ₱27,500 | 1,861 |
| Management | ₱26,000 | ₱15,000 | ₱52,500 | 1,388 |
| Sales (BPO) | ₱21,500 | ₱18,500 | ₱30,000 | 796 |
| Accounting Staff | ₱22,500 | ₱19,500 | ₱32,500 | 763 |
| Sales Representative | ₱26,500 | ₱19,000 | ₱35,000 | 714 |
| Marketing | ₱23,000 | ₱15,000 | ₱37,500 | 581 |
Full tables for every role and city are in the CSV; the same numbers appear on each role page.
How to cite
Credit Sweldex with a link to the page you took the figure from. A sentence that works:
Please say “advertised pay” rather than “average salary” or “the going rate”. The figures are what employers printed in their ads, before deductions — that distinction is the point of the index, and we will ask for a correction if it is dropped.
Story angles the data supports
- Pay transparency. The share of postings that state a salary, by job board — directly usable in the debate over SB 758.
- Agencies vs direct employers. Staffing firms advertise a different figure from the companies hiring directly, and the gap flips by role.
- Domestic vs remote-for-abroad. Overseas clients hiring Filipinos remotely advertise multiples of what Philippine employers do, for the same job title.
- Against the minimum wage. Role pages for Metro Manila and Metro Cebu show the median as a multiple of that region's wage order. Other metros and the national pages show no floor yet — we have not entered their wage orders, and one national floor would mislead. Metro Manila's floor is ₱755 a day under Wage Order NCR-28. The board's earlier ₱85 order (NCR-27) never took effect because of court injunctions and is still in litigation; we will revise the floor if that case changes it.
- Ads that sit exactly on the floor. In the government's own job portal, the single most common advertised salary is the legal daily minimum itself. Retail, food service and housekeeping medians land on or near it.