{
  "id": "ph-kasambahay-wage-ncr",
  "title": "NCR kasambahay statutory monthly minimum wage",
  "metric": "NCR domestic-worker statutory monthly minimum",
  "unit": "PHP per month",
  "kind": "cost",
  "volatility": "annual",
  "direction_note": "the care-wage floor rising = one month of a fixed pension buys fewer months of care",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) — NCR domestic-worker wage orders",
    "url": "https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/current-monthly-minimum-wage-for-domestic-workers/"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"NCR kasambahay statutory monthly minimum wage\" (NCR domestic-worker statutory monthly minimum). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-kasambahay-wage-ncr.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-kasambahay-wage-ncr.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-kasambahay-wage-ncr.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-08-14",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2013-01",
      "value": 2500,
      "source": {
        "label": "Republic Act No. 10361 (Domestic Workers Act / Batas Kasambahay), §24 — statutory floor at enactment, NCR tier (LawPhil)",
        "url": "https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10361_2013.html"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "Statutory floor set at enactment, approved 18 January 2013. Three tiers: P2,500 (NCR), P2,000 (chartered cities / first-class municipalities), P1,500 (other municipalities). This series tracks the NCR tier.\n"
    },
    {
      "date": "2017-12",
      "value": 3500,
      "source": {
        "label": "Wage Order No. NCR-DW-01, effective 16 December 2017 — NWPC domestic-worker table (Internet Archive snapshot, 15 March 2019)",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190315015958/http://www.nwpc.dole.gov.ph/stats/current-monthly-minimum-wage-for-domestic-workers"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "+P1,000, effective 16 December 2017 — the first adjustment of any kind since the statutory floor took force, four years and eleven months after enactment. NWPC publishes only the current table; recovered from the Internet Archive.\n"
    },
    {
      "date": "2020-01",
      "value": 5000,
      "source": {
        "label": "Wage Order No. NCR-DW-02, effective 2 January 2020 — NWPC \"Current Monthly Minimum Wage For Domestic Workers, September 2021\" (PDF)",
        "url": "https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1-Current-Monthly-MW-for-DW-September-2021.pdf"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "+P1,500, issued 28 Nov 2019, effective 2 January 2020 — the largest single step in the chain."
    },
    {
      "date": "2022-07",
      "value": 6000,
      "source": {
        "label": "Wage Order No. NCR-DW-03, effective 13 July 2022 — NWPC \"Current Monthly Minimum Wage For Domestic Workers, October 2022\" (PDF)",
        "url": "https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-Current-Monthly-MW-for-DW-October-2022.pdf"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "+P1,000, issued 21 June 2022, effective 13 July 2022."
    },
    {
      "date": "2024-01",
      "value": 6500,
      "source": {
        "label": "Wage Order No. NCR-DW-04, effective 3 January 2024 — NWPC \"Current Monthly Minimum Wage For Domestic Workers, August 2024\" (PDF); approval date from the order itself",
        "url": "https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Wage-Order-No.-NCR-DW-04.pdf"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "+P500, approved 12 December 2023, effective 3 January 2024."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-01",
      "value": 7000,
      "source": {
        "label": "Wage Order No. NCR-DW-05, effective 4 January 2025 — NWPC \"Current Monthly Minimum Wage For Domestic Workers, February 2025\" (PDF)",
        "url": "https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Current-Monthly-MW-for-DW-February-2025.pdf"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "+P500, issued 13 December 2024, effective 4 January 2025."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-02",
      "value": 7800,
      "source": {
        "label": "Wage Order No. NCR-DW-06, effective 7 February 2026 — NWPC PDF read in full; affirmed by NWPC 21 January 2026",
        "url": "https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Wage-Order-No.-NCR-DW-06.pdf"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-14",
      "note": "+P800, issued 15 January 2026, effective 7 February 2026. NWPC put NCR coverage at an estimated 223,610 domestic workers, 62% (138,263) live-in. Current as of the Commission's 5 August 2026 table; no NCR-DW-07 had issued.\n"
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}