Check your pay, understand deductions, and work through the figures using your records.
Start with the guide to applicable regional wage rules.
Check the wage guide → 02Understand salary deductions and the records to compare.
Review the deductions → 03Use the calculator with earned basic salary and any amount already paid.
Open the calculator → 04Work through gross pay, deductions and net pay.
Check the net-pay guide →Understand your pay, check what you should receive, and know what to do when something is wrong.
Am I being paid the correct minimum wage? Check regional rates and coverage.
What counts as wages, and how should my salary be computed?
Was money deducted from your salary or were you paid too little?
How much extra pay should you receive for holiday work?
Are you eligible and how much should you receive?
Check SIL eligibility and payment for unused leave.
Net Pay Calculator and more tools → 13th-Month Pay Calculator → Minimum Wage & Underpayment Tool →
Not sure what term you need? Browse the Philippine Labor Law Glossary →
More guides on this topic appear below.
The 13th month pay report to DOLE is a separate compliance filing from the 13th month pay benefit itself. Here’s who must file, the January 15 deadline, how to submit it via reports.dole.gov.ph, and what happens if an employer misses it.
How to compute holiday pay for retail employees in the Philippines, including the small-store exemption, promodisers, commission sellers and monthly-paid staff.
Review November 1–2 payslips and plan for Bonifacio Day on November 30, 2026. Check covered private-sector employees’ holiday rates, rest-day premiums, overtime and the unworked-day conditions.
How to compute holiday pay and rest day premium for delivery riders in the Philippines, including per-drop pay, field personnel and small-shop rules.
Philippine law caps the interval between paydays at sixteen days, and “cash flow” is not a lawful excuse for habitual delay. Here is what you are owed, who is liable, and where to file.
A wage underpayment is any shortfall between what the law or contract requires and what was actually paid. Here is how to compute the shortfall, which forum to use depending on your employment status, and what you can recover on top of the unpaid amount.
When a typhoon or flood suspends work, pay is not automatic. See DOLE’s actual rules: the 6-hour/proportionate/no-pay structure, the no-sanction protection for unsafe conditions, and what employees and employers should do next.
When a wage order’s effective date falls inside a payroll cutoff, employers must split the cutoff by calendar day — old rate before, new rate on and after. A worked example using a real 2026 wage order, plus the Labor Code and Civil Code basis for the split.
Hazard pay in the Philippines is not one universal right. See exactly who qualifies under RA 7305, RA 11712, and the DBM hazard duty pay rules, and how much each pays.
A practical year-end payroll compliance checklist for Philippine employers: the December 24 deadline for 13th month pay, the January 15 DOLE compliance report, BIR Form 2316 and 1604-C/Alphalist deadlines, and SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG remittance reconciliation.