How your team budget is calculated

Each selected role is one employee. We use the average monthly base-pay midpoint for the selected role and level from PH_Salary_Benchmarks_AI_Tech_GTM.xlsx, Salary_Data. Only Philippines-wide base-pay rows are included; total-compensation rows, Metro Manila-only rows and flagged outliers are excluded. Levels with no eligible base-pay data are omitted.

Employer contributions

SSS: 10% of salary credit, including mandatory provident fund, plus ₱10 EC up to ₱14,500 salary credit or ₱30 from ₱15,000. Salary credits follow ₱500 brackets, with a ₱5,000 floor and ₱35,000 ceiling. PhilHealth: employer share of 2.5% of base salary, using the ₱10,000 floor and ₱100,000 ceiling. Pag-IBIG: employer share of 2%, capped at ₱10,000 fund salary.

• SSS employer schedule effective January 2025
• PhilHealth premium schedule and equal employer and employee shares
• DOLE benefits handbook, Pag-IBIG rules, printed page 63

Benefits and office cost

Monthly provisions: base salary ÷ 12 for 13th-month pay; ₱5,000 ÷ 12 for HMO; ₱3,000 ÷ 12 for the Christmas basket; and ₱7,000 office cost. These apply per employee. Annual estimates are monthly cost × 12, including one 13th-month salary and one year of HMO and Christmas benefits.

Currency and fee

Salary and employment costs are calculated in PHP then converted. The US$500 monthly fee per employee is converted directly from USD. ExchangeRate-API reference rates refresh daily and show their date; if refresh fails, dated saved rates are used. Estimates exclude transaction spreads, overtime, holiday premiums, equipment and taxes.