Half of the ads sit inside the yellow box. The dashed line is the legal minimum.
What the software engineer ads show
Offers for software engineer jobs in Metro Cebu are spread wide: the upper-quarter line (₱50,000) is 3.3 times the lower-quarter line (₱15,000), with the median (₱15,000) near the middle of that band. The average ad offers ₱35,504, 137% above the median, pulled up by a smaller group of higher offers. Metro Cebu pays 70% less than the national median of ₱50,000 for software engineer, and holds 5% of the ads nationwide.
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 software engineer ads that state pay · 12 months to October 2026 · median and middle half · ₱ per month
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 software engineer jobs pay in Metro Cebu?
In October 2026, the median advertised pay for software engineer in Metro Cebu was ₱15,000 a month. Half of the 35 postings that stated pay offered between ₱15,000 and ₱50,000.
Is ₱15,000 a month good pay in Metro Cebu?
It is 1.3 times the Central Visayas minimum wage (₱11,745 a month at 540 pesos a day). This is advertised pay before deductions, not take-home.
Magkano ang sweldo ng software engineer sa Metro Cebu?
Ang median na sweldo na nakasulat sa mga job ad noong October 2026 ay ₱15,000 kada buwan. Ang kalahati ng 35 job ads ay nag-aalok ng ₱15,000 hanggang ₱50,000.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 57 job postings across 9 Philippine job boards in October 2026, of which 61% 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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