PSA data: Top 5 occupations with highest daily basic pay in the Philippines

The Philippine Statistics Authority’s latest Labor Force Survey (LFS) results released on Thursday showed the top occupations in terms of daily basic pay.

The April 2024 LFS showed that managers received the highest average daily wage at P1,400 per day.

The PSA describes managers as those who “plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the overall activities of enterprises, governments, and other organizations.”

This was followed by professionals who received daily basic pay of P1,222.

Professionals are those who apply scientific or artistic concepts and theories in their task such as in the fields of sciences, social sciences, legal and social services, art, among others.

Armed forces occupations received the third highest daily basic pay at P1,208.

Armed forces occupations included all jobs held by members of the armed forces, excluding those in civil defenses such as police and customs inspectors.

Technicians and associate professionals came in fourth, receiving daily basic pay of P792.

Technicians are those who perform technical tasks connected with application of scientific or artistic concepts, operational methods, and government or business regulations.

Clerical support workers was the fifth occupation that received the highest daily basic pay at P728.

Clerical support work includes recording, organizing, storing information and performing clerical duties such as money-handling, travel arrangements, and appointments.

The PSA also released the bottom five occupations in terms of daily basic pay, namely:

• Elementary occupations - P403
• Skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers - P443
• Service and sales workers - P508
• Craft and related trades workers - P541
• Plant and machine operators and assemblers - P554

Elementary occupations involve simple routine tasks which require use of hand-held tools such as cleaning, restocking of supplies, basic maintenance, helping in the kitchen, sweeping streets, among others.

Skilled agricultural workers, meanwhile, are those who prepare soil, sow, fertilize, harvest crops; breed, raise, tend, hunt animals; catch and cultivate fish and other aquatic life; and sell produce to markets, purchasers.

Service and sales workers’ tasks include housekeeping, preparing and serving food and beverages, providing basic health care, posing as models for advertising, hairdressing and beauty treatments, enforcing of law, selling goods at stalls and markets.

Craft and related trades are those who perform tasks applying specific knowledge and skills in constructing and maintaining buildings, making handicrafts, pottery and glass, making metal structures or welding and casting metal.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers are those who operate and monitor industrial and agricultural machinery and equipment.—AOL, GMA Integrated News