Best Posts in Thread: Filipino Household Income and Expenses

Jack Peterson · Mar 20, 2019

Let's face it if you are on a fixed Income ( like so many here) you must make your life fit the Budget not try to live life a life that your Budget won't sustain for long. IMHO

liannastar · Mar 20, 2019

Rye83 said: ↑

I was about to contest this but I decided to do a quick search on it. I'll start a new thread. What I found was quite surprising to me:

They don't link to any source, only name the, very lengthy, report by name. So I'm going to trust this information is accurate to the source material and just provide a link: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/FIES 2015 Final Report.pdf
There is a tone of stuff in there about income and expenses. I may look through it more and pull some statistics that interest me tomorrow.

But the initial income statistics certainly surprised me. (I thought the income, especially among the wealthy families, would be much higher. I'm curious if they were not declaring some "income".)
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These numbers seem about right from other stats I've read before.
Also have a lot of professional Filipino family who are very open about their salaries.

Nurses make about 6k Pesos a month
School teachers about 10-15k pesos
Even a barangay official makes about 15k pesos

Yet they all somehow make it work, with a smile

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