Workers are seen constructing column posts of a road project along Road 10 in Tondo, Manila, June 7, 2025. — PHILIPPINE STAR/NOEL B. PABALATE
By Erika Mae P. Sinaking, Reporter
THE DAILY minimum wage in Metro Manila will increase to P780 by January 2027 after the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-National Capital Region approved an P85 increase to be implemented in two phases, Labor Secretary Francis N. Tolentino announced on Tuesday.
The wage order provides for a P60 increase effective July 19 and another P25 effective in January next year, raising the daily minimum wage for nonagricultural workers from P695 to P780.
For agricultural workers and employees of retail, service and small manufacturing establishments covered by the lower wage tier, the minimum wage will rise from P658 to P743.
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