Pinoy developer salaries, the lowest in the world?

If this infographic data of a survey made on annual salaries and compensations of web designers and web developers, the Philippines ranked as the lowest paid in the world.

If you don’t want to scroll down and read all the gory details, let me summarize them for you.

Annual Salaries:

Graphic Designers: $5,657.71 (Php243,281 or Php18,713/month)
Web Developer: $6,873.83 (Php295,574 or Php22,736/month)
Senior Web Developer: $9,054.33 (Php389,336 or Php29,949/month)
Software Developer: $7,521.83 (Php323,439 or Php24,880/month)
Web Designer: $4,244.28 (Php182,504 or Php14,039/month)
Senior Web Designer: $7,190.59 (Php309,195 or Php23,784/month)
Medical Transcriptionist: $3,112.47 (Php133,836 or Php10,295/month)

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

79 Comments

Edward Maranan says:

13 years ago

So sad! It’s the most tedious job and prone to headache…
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Marcial Bonifacio says:

13 years ago

Baka may mga kaibigan kayo na nasa ganitong linya ng trabaho. Bigyan niyo kami ng idea kung magkano sinasahod nila. Baka naman kasi per project basis lang sila o kaya nagta-trabaho sa isang malaking company kaya ganyan kababa ang sahod, pero grabe ang baba nyan.
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PinoyDev says:

13 years ago

For Java & .NET Developers in Manila.
Entry level : ~10k to ~30k
Mid Level : ~20k to ~50k
Senior Level : ~50k to 200k+

This is not from any survey. This is just from what I observe in the industry.

Jacque Doring says:

13 years ago

These are the reason why they want to outsourced here.
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reynold says:

13 years ago

Parang anlabo naman na mas malaki sa india and malaysia. i think di nag kakalayo with those two countries, but regardless lowest talaga in the world. (Although we still dont consider the lifestyle.)
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Lezure2010 says:

13 years ago

It may be low compared to the rest of the world, but developer salaries here in the Philippines are still pretty high compared to other jobs. Just convert those figures to peso.

We also haven’t factored in the cost of living here compared to other countries. Food probably cost more there or something like that.
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webSupot says:

13 years ago

Marami kasing pinoy na utu-uto! Kahit mababang sahod tanggap lang ng tanggap. We’re selling ourselves short! People should know what they’re worth before accepting any type of job.
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Neil says:

13 years ago

Number 1 reason diyan is yung cost ng education (college) sa mga countries na yan. IIRC, ang 1 year of college sa US is about ~$50,000 to ~$70,000. :)
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Kyle says:

13 years ago

Very true. The cost is staggering. I already study at a relatively expensive university in our country where average tuition alone per year is Php 150,000+ (approx $3400) and the $30,000 tuition at community colleges in the US is already a farcry. What more better universities there? Not to mention universities in first world countries are actually more difficult to get into and are even harder to stay in.

While salaries here are relatively lower, the cost of living is too. Besides, they salaries aren’t really THAT low. I don’t know where Staff.com gets their figures, but most of the people I know get WAY more than that. Yes, what they do fit the description of those jobs mentioned.
Kyle says:

13 years ago

I’ll retract that. It’s not “most of the people I know. It’s ALL of the people I know that fit those job descriptions get MORE than those salaries indicated.

I wonder where they get their figures.

*Apologies for the typos and whatnot in the previous message. Just woke up rofl. I really wish they had an edit function for the messages.

Ben says:

13 years ago

Almost every job in every field in the Philippines is compensated better on other countries. That’s why everyone that is talented goes to work abroad.
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Cybread says:

13 years ago

Really! I think one of the reasons that resulted to this is that Foreign companies know that the standard of living in the Philippines is very low compare to their home country so these companies are really taking advantage to get cheap service from Filipinos. Filipinos grab it because they don’t have any choice.
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manaka_junpei says:

13 years ago

the only way to resolve this is to bring K-12 to the Philippine Education system, the Old one must go, hindi na kasi maganda ang lumang educational system, dahil sa discrimination nang other countries pagdating sa education, talo tayo, plus more Out of the School Youth, dropouts atbp., para kapag nakatapos nang buo, no problem at all kapag OFW na sila.
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