Thirteenth Month App 2.4

It's only a few weeks to go before Christmas! One of the things Filipinos look forward to this time is the Thirteenth Month Pay. This is why we developed Thirteenth Month web and Android app. Thirteenth Month is a tool for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays.

With the Thirteenth Month app, users can input their salaries from January to December. Version 2.4 of the Androd app with design and performance updates is now rolling out.

Help us improve Thirteenth Month! If you have suggestions on how we can improve our apps, please contact us by emailing us at info@sweldongpinoy.com or by sending us a message. You can also add a review on the Google Play Store page of the apps. For more updates, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

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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.

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Thirteenth Month Android App 2.0.4

It's fifty one days to go before Christmas! One of the things Filipinos look forward to this time is the Thirteenth Month Pay. This is why we developed Thirteenth Month web and Android app. Thirteenth Month is a tool for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays.

With the Thirteenth Month app, users can input their salaries from January to December. We have done minor updates on the design and performance of the Android app. Version 2.0.4 is now rolling out.

Help us improve Thirteenth Month! If you have suggestions on how we can improve our apps, please contact us by emailing us at info@sweldongpinoy.com or by sending us a message. You can also add a review on the Google Play Store page of the apps. For more updates, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

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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.

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.

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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)

New Thirteenth Month

It's (almost) Christmas! One of the things Filipinos look forward to this time is the thirteenth month pay. Almost six years ago, we developed a tool for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays called Thirteenth Month.

With the Thirteenth Month app, users can input their salary and find out around how much their Thirteenth Month Pay will be. In the initial version, they need to provide the monthly salary and their starting month and ending month. We then added an option to provide starting and ending weeks to be more accurate. This works if you have the same salary year round. However, this is not always the case in real life. People get salary increases or sometimes move to another job with a higher pay.

Now, users can input their salaries from January to December. 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.

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

Output screen updates with the salaries per month

We are now rolling out the new updates in time for the Christmas season. Try them now at https://13thmonth.sweldongpinoy.com and on version 2.0 of the Android app. The Android app also has Dark Theme.

If you have suggestions on how we can improve Thirteenth Month and/or our other apps, please contact us by emailing us at info@sweldongpinoy.com or by sending us a message. For more updates, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

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New Year, New Sweldong Pinoy

It's almost the end of the year. Are you excited for 2018? There are two major changes starting next year: Republic Act 10963 or Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) will be effective and PhilHealth issues Circular No. 2017-0024 increasing the contribution rate.

TRAIN gives higher take-home pay for most employees. Those earning less than 250 thousand pesos annually will be exempted from paying income tax. Tax exemption for the 13th month pay and other bonuses was also increased from 82 thousand pesos to 90 thousand pesos. The tax schedule will reduce income tax for around 7.5 million people. It will also go down by 2023. Other provisions of the law include higher tax on sugar-sweetened drinks, higher taxes on fuels (gasoline, diesel, and gasoline, diesel, and liquefied petroleum gas), cars, tobacco, and coal, and taxing cosmetic surgeries.

The monthly PhilHealth contribution will be at 2.75% of the monthly salary (it was previously at 2.5%). Salary brackets will be removed and the floor and ceiling of the computation will be 10 thousand and 40 thousand pesos, respectively. You can learn more about this in Circular No. 2017-0024

These updates are available in https://www.sweldongpinoy.com, in version 4.0 of the Sweldong Pinoy Android app (rolling out now), and in all our apps. We'll still continue to update the apps. Email us at info@sweldongpinoy.com or send us a message if you have questions and suggestions about our apps

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Sweldong Pinoy At 4

Sweldong Pinoy is now 4! The first version of Sweldong Pinoy was released on April 3, 2012. You can check out highlights of the past 4 years at http://timeline.sweldongpinoy.com.

Sweldong Pinoy was originally made as a salary calculator for Filipinos in computing net pay, withholding taxes and contributions to SSS, PhilHealth and PAG-IBIG. Since then, we have added additional features (like OT, night differential, etc). We have also added versions for Minimum Wage Earners, RHQ/ROHQ employees, government employees, etc.

Other than Sweldong Pinoy, we have also developed Thirteenth Month, a tool for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays. We are also working on iOS versions of the existing Android apps (sorry for the delay! for the meantime, you can go to sweldongpinoy.com on your iOS devices). We'll also be launching a new app that could help you in budgetting your salary.

Thanks to everyone who have used and who are still using our apps. There are still a lot of things to be done and we welcome your messages, comments, and suggestions. Email us at info@sweldongpinoy.com or send us a message.

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Sweldong Pinoy in 2015

Most of the changes to Sweldong Pinoy this year was on performance improvements and design enhancements. Here are some of the updates to Sweldong Pinoy throughout 2015.

Sweldong Pinoy Updates

We have released Sweldong Pinoy for Minimum Wage Earners on April. Our apps our apps will no longer deduct withholding taxes for employees earning minimum wage if you select "Minimum Wage Employee" in the Employee Type.

Other updates:

• For employees with daily pays, you can now provide the actual number of days and the app will compute your salary based on this instead of the previous default of 20. This is because not everyone works for 20 days in a given month.
  
• We have also improved the computation for the hourly and daily rates which are being used in salary computation, like the night differential and overtime pays.
• The apps now compute night differential based on number of hours instead of the days
  
• Minor changes like moving compute button to right and clear button to the left

Thirteenth Month Updates

For Thirteenth Month, we had two updates to the apps: setting the ceiling for non-taxable thirteenth month to 82,000 pesos (pursuant to Republic Act No. 10653, which was approved on February 12, 2015) and computing for thirteenth-month pay based on the actual weeks inputted by the user.

Thirteenth Month Android (running on a 7" tablet)

Project X

We are also working on another project. It is still in its early stage and we will let you know about it soon!

Help us Improve Sweldong Pinoy

We are continuously updating and improving the app. If you have used or are using any of our apps, help us improve by filling up our survey at http://survey.sweldongpinoy.com. You may also contact us directly.

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Thirteenth Month App Update

We are happy to announce that we have two updates to Thirteenth Month web app and Android app today.

The first is that we have set the ceiling for non-taxable thirteenth month to 82,000 pesos (pursuant to Republic Act No. 10653, which was approved on February 12, 2015)

The other update is that the app is now computing for thirteenth-month pay based on the actual weeks inputted by the user.

Thirteenth Month Android App 1.1 (running on a 7" tablet)

Let us know if you have comments and suggestions by sending us a message.

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Sweldong Pinoy in 2014

It has been a great year for Sweldong Pinoy. There were major and minor updates to the apps and we released a new app.

Computation Updates

The year started with increases in the deductions for PhilHealth and SSS contributions based from PhilHealth Circular 27 s.2013 and SSS Circular 2013-010. Sweldong Pinoy apps were updated on January 4 to compute the new deductions based on these new tables.

Android Tablet App

After a bit of delay, the tablet-optimized version of the Sweldong Pinoy Android app has been released.

Swedong Pinoy Android App on a 7-inch tablet

Sweldong Pinoy for Government Employees

Sweldong Pinoy was updated for Government employees. Instead of SSS deductions, what the government employees have is GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) contributions. Government employees will just select "Government Employee" in the Employment Type and the app will compute the GSIS contribution instead of the SSS contribution, other deductions, and net pay.

Sweldong Pinoy Android App showing the Government Employee Employment Type input

Sweldong Pinoy for RHQ/ROHQ Employees

The Sweldong Pinoy apps has been updated for employees of Regional or Area Headquarters (RHQs) and Regional Operating Headquarters (ROHQs). RHQ/ROHQ employees will just select "RHQ/ROHQ Employee" in the Employment Type and the app will compute their withholding tax, other deductions, and net pay.

http://www.sweldongpinoy.com with RHQ/ROHQ Employee as a selection in Employment Type

Thirteenth Month Apps

We have developed Thirteenth Month, a tool for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays. It can be accessed at http://13thmonth.sweldongpinoy.com. The Android app is also available on Google Play

Thirteenth Month Android App 1.0 Input Screen

Sweldong Pinoy in 2015 and beyond

It has been a wonderful year for Sweldong Pinoy. There are still a lot to be done and things under development. If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to send us a message.

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Thirteenth Month Android App

After the initial release of the Thirteenth Month Web app, we are now happy to announce that the Android App for Thirteenth Month is now available on Gogle Play. Thirteenth Month is a tool for Filipinos in computing their 13th-month pays.

Thirteenth Month Android App 1.0 Input Screen

Thirteenth Month Android App 1.0 Results Screen

If you have an Android device, download the app and let us know if you have comments and suggestions.

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Thirteenth Month

Want to know how much 13th-month pay you will be getting this year? We've made an app for you! Try the Thirteenth Month app at http://13thmonth.sweldongpinoy.com

Try the app and let us know your comments and suggestions.

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