Half of the ads sit inside the yellow box. The dashed line is the legal minimum. 65% of these ads come from one board — treat month-to-month changes with care.
What the cook / chef ads show
Advertised pay for cook / chef jobs in Metro Manila is tightly bunched, with the middle half of ads between ₱18,000 and ₱21,500, with the median (₱19,350) near the middle of that band. A quarter of the ads offer ₱18,000 or less, close to the NCR minimum wage of ₱16,421 a month. Ads bunch on one figure: ₱19,000 to ₱19,999 alone accounts for 28% of them.
Same job, other places
Same scale on every row · median and middle half · ₱ per month
Who is hiring and what they offer
Employers with at least 10 cook / chef ads that state pay · 12 months to October 2026 · median and middle half · ₱ per month
Top 8 of 17 employers by number of ads. Ads without an employer name are left out. The same company can appear twice when boards spell its name differently. All employers
Jobs that state the pay
Sorted by pay. The link opens the employer's own posting.
“Agency” means a staffing firm — you'd work at a client company. We never republish the ad; the link opens the original. How we read a salary line
Questions people ask
How much do cook / chef jobs pay in Metro Manila?
In October 2026, the median advertised pay for cook / chef in Metro Manila was ₱19,350 a month. Half of the 284 postings that stated pay offered between ₱18,000 and ₱21,500.
Is ₱19,350 a month good pay in Metro Manila?
It is 1.2 times the NCR minimum wage (₱16,421 a month at 755 pesos a day). This is advertised pay before deductions, not take-home.
Magkano ang sweldo ng cook / chef sa Metro Manila?
Ang median na sweldo na nakasulat sa mga job ad noong October 2026 ay ₱19,350 kada buwan. Ang kalahati ng 284 job ads ay nag-aalok ng ₱18,000 hanggang ₱21,500.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 473 job postings across 9 Philippine job boards in October 2026, of which 60% stated a salary. Duplicates are removed and groups under 10 postings are not shown. The original ads are linked, never copied.
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