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Overtime, holiday pay, leave entitlements, and the mandatory benefits every Philippine payslip should reflect.

Wages & Benefits

How to Pay Your SSS Salary Loan via GCash (Using Your PRN)

Once you have a PRN, paying your SSS salary loan through GCash takes under a minute — GBills, search SSS, enter the reference number. Here's the exact screen-by-screen flow.

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How to Generate Your SSS Salary Loan PRN (My.SSS, Step by Step)

Your approved salary loan doesn't get you a payment slip automatically — you have to generate the Payment Reference Number yourself on My.SSS. Here's exactly where to click.

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Wages & Benefits

How to Compute Your PhilHealth Contribution (2026)

PhilHealth is a flat 5% of your monthly basic salary, split evenly between you and your employer — but a ₱10,000 floor and ₱100,000 ceiling change the math at both ends. Worked examples at minimum wage, ₱50,000, and ₱100,000.

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Wages & Benefits

SSS Salary Loan: How Much You Can Actually Borrow (2026)

SSS doesn't lend against your salary — it lends against a capped, rounded number most guides gloss over. How the Monthly Salary Credit ceiling works, 8% vs 10% interest, and what you'd actually receive.

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How Much Do Elected Officials Earn? (2026)

The 2026 salary grade and monthly pay of every elected official — barangay to President — plus how an LGU's income class changes the figure.

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Wages & Benefits

Minimum Wage in the Philippines by Region (2026)

The current daily minimum wage in all 17 Philippine regions, with the wage order behind each rate and the increases already scheduled.

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Philippine Holidays 2026: Full List and What Each One Pays

Every regular holiday and special non-working day in the Philippines for 2026, with dates, and the pay rules that apply if you work — or don't — on each type.

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Wages & Benefits

Night Shift Differential in the Philippines: The 10% Premium Explained

Who's entitled to the 10% night shift differential, who's excluded, and how it stacks — multiplicatively, not additively — with overtime and holiday pay.

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Wages & Benefits

Paternity Leave in the Philippines: What RA 8187 Actually Covers

7 days of employer-paid paternity leave, who qualifies, the 4-delivery limit, and why it isn't reimbursed by SSS the way maternity leave is.

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Philippine Maternity Leave Rules Explained (RA 11210)

105 days of paid maternity leave, the solo parent extension, the 7-day father allocation, and how the SSS benefit actually gets computed and paid.

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