Manila
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM, and the 'pending live-verification, will return to HIGH once fetched' framing is withdrawn: the URLs have been fetched. min_wage_url verifies exactly against the live NCR wage table (PHP 755.00/day from 25 July 2026). earnings_url is a Davao piece-rate report with no time denominator and no Metro Manila observation. median_wage_url cannot be resolved at all: psa.gov.ph returns HTTP 403 live and the cited capture also returns 403 through both the standard and id_ Wayback paths, so the published median can be neither confirmed nor refuted.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Inquirer/United Delivery Riders Sentro Philippines
What would you take home in Manila?
Take-home, weekly
n/a
Take-home, monthly
n/a
Gross, weekly
$39
Gross, monthly
$170
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 40% of local minimum wage, 46% of local median.
Notes
Philippines minimum wage varies by region; NCR (Manila) PHP 645/day. GrabFood and foodpanda dominate; many riders use motorcycles in heavy traffic.
View Manila on the interactive map
See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: newsinfo.inquirer.net/1675091/unfair-wages-group-says-some-riders-get-as-low-as-p15-per-delivery-due-to-competition · archived