Tigcal Apps and Projects: Budget Pinoy

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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy for 2025

SSS

Pursuant to Republic Act No. 11199 (The Social Security Act of 2018), the monthly contributions of SSS members will be increased from the current 14% to 15%. Employer share will be 10% (from 9.5%) while the employee share will be increased to 5.0% (from 4.5%). The minimum and maximum salary credits to be used for computation will now be 5,000 and 35,000 (from 4,000 and 30,000).

Sweldong Pinoy for Kasambahay

We have also added Domestic Worker (Kasambahay) in the list of employment types and the app will compute the corresponding deductions based on Republic Act No. 10361 (Domestic Workers Act or Batas Kasambahay).

App Updates

We have already added these changes to sweldongpinoy.com and budgetpinoy.com, and the Android apps (Sweldong Pinoy version 5.0 and Budget Pinoy version 2.0). If you want to compare the current (2024) and the upcoming rates, you can use the dropdown to change the year and compare how the salary will change.

If you have comments and suggestions for our apps, let us know! Send us a message by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. For more updates, you can follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy for 2024

Update: The increase in contribution for Pag-IBIG Fund (HDMF) will be straight to 200 instead of 150. The apps have been updated.

PhilHealth

In accordance with the Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223), the PhilHealth contribution rate will now be 5.0% (from 4.5%) and the income ceiling will increase from 90,000 to 100,000.

Source: https://twitter.com/teamphilhealth/status/1200200278508625922

Pag-IBIG Fund

Pag-IBIG Fund members' mandatory monthly savings was also scheduled to increase from the current P100 to 150 by January 2021 and to 200 by January 2023. These have been deferred from 2021 to 2023. The contribution is scheduled to increase in 2024. For now, the app is using the 150 rate and will update it again if it would be increased straight to 200 or deferred once again.

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy Updates

We have already updated sweldongpinoy.com and budgetpinoy.com, and the Android apps (Sweldong Pinoy version 4.6 and Budget Pinoy version 1.4) with the changes to the contributions. If you want to compare the current (2023) and the upcoming rates, you can use the dropdown to change the year and compare how the salary will change.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy for 2023

Update: The increase in contribution for Pag-IBIG Fund (HDMF) and PhilHealth will not continue this year. The Sweldong Pinoy apps have been updated.

Tax

According to Republic Act 10963 or Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN), the taxes will be reduced starting 2023.

SSS

Pursuant to Republic Act No. 11199 (The Social Security Act of 2018), the monthly contributions of SSS members will be increased from the current 13% to 14%. Employer share will be 9.5% (from 8.5%) while the employee share will still be 4.5%. The minimum and maximum salary credits to be used for computation will now be 4,000 and 30,000 (from 3,000 and 25,000).

PhilHealth

In accordance with the Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223), the PhilHealth contribution rate will now be 4.5% (from 4.0%) and the income ceiling will increase from 80,000 to 90,000.

Source: https://twitter.com/teamphilhealth/status/1200200278508625922

Pag-IBIG Fund

Pag-IBIG Fund members' mandatory monthly savings was also scheduled to increase from the current P100 to 150 by January 2021 and to 200 by January 2023. The first increase has been deferred both in 2021 and 2022.

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy Updates

We have updated sweldongpinoy.com, budgetpinoy.com, and the Sweldong Pinoy (version 4.5) and Budget Pinoy (version 1.3) Android apps with the changes to the contributions. The apps have a dropdown so you can choose between the 2022 and 2023 rates. With this, you compare how your salary will change.

Do you have comments and suggestions for our apps? Let us know by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. For more updates, you can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Tigcal Apps and Projects in 2021

This year, I continued working on Tigcal Apps and Projects. Here are the features and updates (arranged alphabetically by app name):

Boto Ko

Boto Ko has been updated for the 2022 National and Local Elections. It also can now automatically update the list of candidates (for the national positions) as soon as they become available. The Clear and Save buttons have also been fixed at the bottom so users can easily use them without scrolling all the way down to all the input fields.

Boto Ko Website and Web App

Boto Ko now has a domain name and website: https://www.botoko.app. The website was also transformed into a web app so that users can use Boto Ko even if they are not using an Android device.

PHostpaid

PHostpaid 2.0, with Dark Theme support and more, has been released this year. I also converted everything from Java to 100% Kotlin, improved the app architecture, and refactored the code.

Pinoy Jokes

Minor updates to the Pinoy Jokes Android app have been released this year. I'm still working on the next big release for the app.

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy

Sweldong Pinoy has been updated early in the year for the deferred PhilHealth contribution increase. They were then updated for the contribution increases for 2022.

Other apps

I also updated other apps like Thirteenth Month with small changes, mostly on design and performance.

Comments/Suggestions?

Help us improve our apps! Send us your comments and suggestions by email or by adding a review on the Google Play Store page of the apps.

Sweldong Pinoy in 2021

Sweldong Pinoy is a salary calculator for Filipinos in computing net pay, withholding taxes and contributions to SSS/GSIS, PhilHealth and PAG-IBIG. Here are the updates we have released this year for Sweldong Pinoy, Budget Pinoy, and Thirteenth Month.

Deferring PhilHealth Contribution Increase

Contributions for SSS and PhilHealth have increased but for PhilHealth, it was deferred. We have immediately updated all our apps after the announcement.

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy for 2022

Contributions for PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG Fund are increasing in 2022. The Android and web apps of Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy has been updated. A dropdown was added so users can choose and compare between the current or upcoming rates.

Other Updates

There have been a few updates focusing on design and performance updates to the apps.

Looking forward to 2022

Thank you to everyone who uses Sweldong Pinoy apps and sends us feedback. We're looking forward to adding more features and enhancements to our apps.

If you have comments, suggestions, or messages to us, please feel free to contact us by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for more updates.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy for 2022

Update: Pag-IBIG will defer the increase in contribution again as they had a strong performance in 2021. The Sweldong Pinoy apps have been updated.

Sweldong Pinoy is a salary calculator for Filipinos in computing net pay, withholding taxes and contributions to SSS/GSIS, PhilHealth and PAG-IBIG. Next year, contributions will be changing again; we're updating Sweldong Pinoy with the new rates.

What's Changing?

Last year, contributions for SSS was increased and will still be the same. In accordance with the Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223), the PhilHealth contribution rate will rise to 4.0% (from 3.5%) and the income ceiling will now be 80,000 (from 70,000). However, the increase for 2021 was deferred.

Pag-IBIG Fund members' mandatory monthly savings was also scheduled to increase from the current P100 to 150 by January 2021 and to 200 by January 2023. This was postponed to 2022.

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy Updates

We have updated sweldongpinoy.com, budgetpinoy.com, and the Sweldong Pinoy (version 4.4) and Budget Pinoy (version 1.2) Android apps for the upcoming changes to the contributions.

The Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy web and Android apps have a dropdown so you can choose between the current or upcoming rates. With this, you compare how your salary will change from this year to next.

Sweldong Pinoy for 2022 (Android)

Budget Pinoy for 2022 (Web)

What's Next?

If any of the scheduled increase will be postponed (like with PhilHealth for 2021), we will be updating our apps as soon as it becomes official.

Let us know how we can improve Sweldong Pinoy. Contact us by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. For more updates, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Android Apps Updates

Updates to the Sweldong Pinoy, Budget Pinoy, Thirteenth Month, Boto Ko, and Pinoy Jokes Android apps are rolling out now. These contain design and performance improvements. Boto Ko has additional updates for the upcoming 2022 National and Local Elections.

Sweldong Pinoy is a salary calculator for Filipinos in computing net pay, withholding taxes and contributions to SSS/GSIS, PhilHealth and PAG-IBIG. Budget Pinoy is a tool for Filipinos in finding out how much their asking salary should be based on their budget. Thirteenth Month is a tool app for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays.Boto Ko is an Android application for Philippine elections where you can list, update, and share the candidates you want to vote for. Pinoy Jokes is an Android app that will allow users to view and share Filipino Jokes.

Help us improve our apps! Send us your comments and suggestions by email or by adding a review on the Google Play Store page of the apps.

Friday, January 8, 2021

Deferring PhilHealth Contribution Increase

Contributions for SSS and PhilHealth are increasing this year. PhilHealth contribution rates will now be 3.5% (from 3.0%) and the income ceiling will now be 70,000 (from 60,000).

The monthly contributions of SSS members will be increased from the current 12% to 13%, employer share will be 8.5% (from 8.0%) and employee share will be 4.5% (from 4.0%), and the minimum and maximum salary credits used for computation will now be 3,000 and 25,000 (from 2,000 and 20,000).

We have already updated Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy to use the 2021 rates. Earlier this week, President Duterte ordered the deferring of the PhilHealth contribution increase and PhilHealth suspended the increase pending law amending the Universal Health Care Act.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/PhilHealthofficial

We have updated Sweldong Pinoy (sweldongpinoy.com and Android app 4.3.2) and Budget Pinoy (budgetpinoy.com) to use the new SSS contribution rates for 2021 and the 2020 PhilHealth contribution rates. If you want to check and compare your salary based on 2020 and 2021 rates, you can still use the dropdown to choose the rates.

Sweldong Pinoy is a salary calculator for Filipinos in computing net pay, withholding taxes and contributions to SSS/GSIS, PhilHealth and PAG-IBIG. Help us improve our apps! Send us your comments and suggestions by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. Also, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for more updates.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Monday, January 4, 2021

Sweldong Pinoy in 2020

This year, we have released some new features and other updates to our apps.

Sweldong Pinoy for Self-Employed Individuals

We've added computations for Self-Employed Individuals. You just need to select "Self-Employed Individual" in the employment type and the app will compute the contributions for SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG Fund, tax, and other contributions, and your net pay.

sweldongpinoy.com updated with computations for Self-Employed

Budget Pinoy for Everyone

We have updated Budget Pinoy for Everyone. The web and Android app now has a dropdown for employment type. Users can select their employment type and the app will update the deductions and asking rate accordingly.

Budget Pinoy Android app with Employment Type drop-down

New Thirteenth Month

With the new new Thirteenth Month, users can now input their salaries from January to December to compute their thirteenth month pay. If users have the same salary for the year, they can select "My salary is the same for the whole year" and provide the salary, starting/ending week/month like before. The text fields for the months will be automatically filled up.

You can now provide your salaries per month or select My salary is the same for the whole year

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021/Budget Pinoy for 2021

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy were also updated to use the new contribution rates for SSS and PhilHealth starting 2021. In the initial release, we added a dropdown so you can choose the current (2020) or upcoming (2021) rates.

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021

Other Updates

On supported browsers, a share button has been added to the web app for users to share their results.

Sweldong Pinoy Share button; Chrome on Pixel 2

A live chat widget has also been added to the web apps for real-time user support.

Chatra for Sweldong Pinoy

To 2021 and beyond!

Thank you to everyone who uses Sweldong Pinoy and sends us feedback. We're looking forward to adding more features and enhancements to our apps. If you have comments, suggestions, or messages to us, please feel free to contact us by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for more updates.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Friday, January 1, 2021

Tigcal Apps and Projects in 2020

Tigcal Apps

I have made some little commits to the Tigcal Apps repository. I have also changed the app icon.

Sweldong Pinoy

A major release for the year is Sweldong Pinoy for Self-Employed Individuals. For 2021, Sweldong Pinoy was also updated to use the new contribution rates for SSS and PhilHealth. On supported browsers, a share button has been added to the web app for users to share their results. A live chat widget has also been added to the web apps for real-time user support.

Budget Pinoy

Budget Pinoy for Everyone: The web and Android app now has a dropdown for employment type. Users can select their employment type and the app will update the deductions and asking rate accordingly.

Thirteenth Month

The new Thirteenth Month app was released. Users can now input their salaries from January to December to compute their thirteenth month pay. If they have the same salary for the year, they can select "My salary is the same for the whole year" and provide the salary, starting/ending week/month like before. The text fields for the months will be automatically filled up.

GDGPH Chrome Extension

A new update to the Google Chrome Extension for Google Developer Group (GDG) Philippines (version 3.1) was released. This included the following: adding events tab to display events from the Meetup Page, updating GDG logo, updating links, and removing blog and video tabs.

GDG Philippines 4.0

After updating the GDGPH Chrome Extension, I spent some time updating the Android app. I migrated the code to Kotlin and used Retrofit, Coroutines, and ViewModel to fetch the events from the Meetup API. Other changes include the Dark Theme and updates to chapter links.

The events tab on a mobile phone: light theme (left) and dark theme (right)

Monday, December 21, 2020

Sweldong Pinoy Android App for 2021

Contributions for SSS and PhilHealth will be increasing next year. PhilHealth contribution rates will now be 3.5% (from 3.0%) and the income ceiling will now be 70,000 (from 60,000).

We have already updated Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy to use the 2021 rates. Now, we're also updating the Android apps. Sweldong Pinoy (version 4.3.1) and Budget Pinoy (version 1.1.1) are now using the 2021 rates. If you haven't downloaded the apps yet, download them now from the Google Play Store.

Sweldong Pinoy Android app (left) and Budget Pinoy Android app (right) now uses the rates for 2021

For the remaining days of the year, the apps will be using the 2021 rates by default. If you want to check and compare your salary based on 2020 and 2021 rates, you can go to sweldongpinoy.com and budgetpinoy.com. The dropdown for choosing between the current or upcoming rates will be available there.

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Monday, November 30, 2020

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021

Sweldong Pinoy is a salary calculator for Filipinos in computing net pay, withholding taxes and contributions to SSS/GSIS, PhilHealth and PAG-IBIG. Next year, most contributions will be changing; we're updating Sweldong Pinoy with the new rates to help you.

What's Changing?

For 2021, contributions for SSS and PhilHealth will be increasing. The rates for Pag-IBIG Fund was also planned to increase from 100 to 150 by January 2021 but they decided to postpone the change to January 2022.

Pursuant to Republic Act No. 11199 (The Social Security Act of 2018), the monthly contributions of SSS members will be increased from the current 12% to 13% in 2021. Employer share will be 8.5% (from 8.0%) and employee share will be 4.5 % (from 4.0%). The minimum and maximum salary credits used for computation will now be 3,000 and 25,000 (from 2,000 and 20,000).
In accordance with the Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223), the PhilHealth contribution rate will rise to 3.5% (from 3.0%) and the income ceiling will now be 70,000 (from 60,000).

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy for 2021

We planned to update sweldongpinoy.com and budgetpinoy.com to use the 2021 rates before the year ends. However, some of you might want to use our apps using the rates for 2020. You might also be interested to compare how your salary for 2020 and 2021. We have added a dropdown so you can choose the current or upcoming rates. For now, the app will compute using 2020 rates by default. Starting January 1, it will automatically use the new rates. If the increases for next year will be postponed, we will be updating our apps to reflect that.

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021

Budget Pinoy for 2021

The android apps of Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy will be updated in the coming days to use the 2021 rates.

Let us know how we can improve Sweldong Pinoy. Contact us by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. For more updates, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Monday, July 27, 2020

Budget Pinoy for Everyone

Budget Pinoy is a tool for Filipinos in finding out how much their asking salary should be based on their budget. The app will even tell you how much to save per category per pay day.

After you provide your Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annnual budgets, the app will compute and display the asking rate you need to earn enough for your total budget. This uses the contributions and taxes for a "Private Employee" by default.

We have now added a dropdown for employment type so users can select their employment type instead of the default. When you change the employment type, the app will update the deductions and asking rate accordingly. This update is available now at https://www.budgetpinoy.com and on version 1.1 of the Budget Pinoy Android app (which is rolling out now).

budgetpinoy.com on mobile browser with the employment type drop-down

Budget Pinoy Android app with Employment Type drop-down

Let us know how we can improve Budget Pinoy to help you more. Contact us by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. For more updates, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Tigcal Apps and Projects in 2019

Tigcal Apps and Projects

The repository for Tigcal Apps has been open sourced on Github. Tigcal Apps has served as my sandbox project for learning and working on Material Design Components, AndroidX, Kotlin, Dark Theme, and more.

Sweldong Pinoy

There has been two major updates to Sweldong Pinoy this year. The SSS contribution was updated based from Republic Act No. 11199 (The Social Security Act of 2018). PhilHealth contribution was also updated based from the Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223) and PhilHealth released Circular 2019-009. Other updates included design improvements and Dark Theme for the Android app.

Budget Pinoy

We have also released the new version of Budget Pinoy, which now has a web app at https://www.budgetpinoy.com other than the Android app.

Budget Pinoy is a tool for Filipinos in finding out how much their asking salary should be based on their budget. Users can input their budgets and specify if they are Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annnually. These will be totalled and the app will show the user the asking rate they need to earn enough for their budget. The net pay and deductions are computed using Sweldong Pinoy.

Boto Ko

Boto Ko was also updated for the 2019 National and Local Elections in the Philippines. The candidates for senators and party list representatives have been added in a list so it will be easier to select. In the party-list selection, there is an additional button to view the party list's nominees.

Tigcal Samples, Tigcal Utils

I also added in my Tigcal Samples repository the Android projects I've worked with in the past few months and the Bill Calculator I removed from Tigcal Utils. A separate repository was also made for my Tigcal Utilities app.