PSA reveals top 5 jobs in PH with highest daily basic pay

The Philippine Statistics Authority’s latest Labor Force Survey (LFS) results released on Friday showed the top occupations receiving the highest daily basic pay in the country.

The October 2024 LFS showed the following results:

Armed Forces occupations received the highest average daily wage at P1,301, which increased from P1,173 per day in October 2023.

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

Professionals are next on the list, specifically those who receive a daily basic pay of P1,168, up from P1,135 per day year-on-year.

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.

Managers received the third highest daily wage at P1,109, down from P1,254 per day in October 2023.

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

Technicians and associate professionals came in fourth, receiving daily basic pay of P826, up from P785 year-on-year.

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 P740, up from P706 in the same month last year.

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

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Meanwhile, the bottom five occupations in terms of daily basic pay, namely:

• Skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers - P378
• Elementary occupations - P413
• Service and sales workers - P525
• Craft and related trades workers - P553
• Plant and machine operators and assemblers - P583

Skilled agricultural workers 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.

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.

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.

--VAL, GMA Ingtegrated News