Occupational Wages Survey 2006

Philippines, 2006 - 2007

Reference ID

PHL_2006_OWS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics

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Apr 12, 2012

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Total workers with basic pay (BP_TOTAL)

Data file: owspartab

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 1257

End: 1264

Width: 8

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Total, basic pay

Question post text

(sums of cols 8, 10 and 12)

For standardization purposes, hourly and daily rates are the corresponding equivalent of the monthly allowances. They were computed on the bass of 313 working days a year and 8 hours per day.

Description

Definition

Time unit - basis of computing, determining or fixing the basic pay or allowance, i.e., hour, day or month. This is different from frequency of payment such as twice a month.
Time-rate workers on full time basis - those paid on the basis of a time unit and who work at jobs with hours of work equal to or more than those considered as normal or regular to the establishment.
Wage rate - refers to the sum of basic pay and regular/guaranteed cash allowances.

Basic pay includes:
• Pay for normal/regular working time before deductions for employees social security contributions (e.g. SSS/GSIS, PhilHealth, PAG-IBIG) and withholding taxes, etc.

Basic pay excludes:
• Overtime, night shift differential and other premium pay
• Commissions, tips and share of employees in service charges
• Payments in kind
• Allowances
• Bonuses and gratuities

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