How Much is the Average Starting Salary in the Philippines

With India and China reaching the level of saturation and the global economy in no mood to look up, Philippines has emerged as the new hub for outsourcing and the technology industry. A key factor in this has been the close proximity of the Philippines to People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, all of which are the biggest tech manufacturing centers of the world. The main result has been an increase in the demand of skilled technology professionals across the country. With such a condition, the average starting salaries of new tech graduates have also gone up in the last few years.

As of now, the computer engineers hold the highest paid job. The average starting salary of a computer engineer is anywhere around the PHP 20,000 mark. According to this starting salary, the programmer in any software company in the Philippines makes a paycheck that is fatter than that of an airline steward, of a physician or a dental healthcare professional employed in a private facility, and even a professor of a university who has a long list of experiences on his resume. There are only three categories where the people can make more money and all three are extremely specialized roles. These are the actuaries hired by insurance companies who are the third highest paid, the accountants and auditors who are the second highest paid, and the pilots, navigators and flight engineers who remain the people to take home the fattest paychecks.

Other than the job of programmer, there are a number of things in the IT industry and outside it which are related to the computers and are really well paying. Consider that the technicians working in the computer related industry get paid as much as PHP 13,074 on an average and you are looking at an upright scenario. As compared to this, the technicians working manufacturing radio and television equipments are being paid a much lesser PHP 11,628. On the other hand the technicians working in postal and telecommunication service providing companies are paid just a bit higher at PHP 13,433. While there is not much difference on the higher side, there is surely a big difference on the lower side which means that taking up a job as an IT technician means that you get great money and there is a demand in the industry so you can keep on moving and looking for higher salary offering companies.

In the case of customer service representatives, the picture looks equally bright. There are divisions based upon the sector where the representative is working and here the difference is rather steep. First of all, the non-bank financial institutions offer a bum deal to their customer service representatives. They only get an average of PHP 10,083. The postal and telecom services are a lot better as they offer as much as PHP 15,046 as the average CSR salary. Finally, there are the banking institutions which are the best for customer service representatives with offers as much PHP 15,369 every month.

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