Sweldong Pinoy in 2019

The year is almost over. In 2019, we have done some design and performance improvements to our Sweldong Pinoy apps. We  also worked on new features and new projects. Here are some of our major highlights for 2019.

SSS Contribution Increase

Republic Act No. 11199 (The Social Security Act of 2018) was signed earlier this year by the president. Under the law, the monthly contributions of SSS members will be increased from the current 11% to 12%. We have updated https://www.sweldongpinoy.com and released Version 4.1 of the Sweldong Pinoy Android app to use the new rates. Learn more here.

PhilHealth Contribution Increase

The Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223) was signed into law last February and PhilHealth released Circular 2019-009 announcing the new premium contribution schedule effective December 7. We have updated https://www.sweldongpinoy.com and released Version 4.2 of the Sweldong Pinoy Android app to use the new rates. Learn more here.

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

New 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.

Dark Theme

We have been experimenting with adding Dark Theme alongside the design changes we're adding on our apps. The latest release of Sweldong Pinoy Android App and the new Budget Pinoy app now have Dark Theme support.

Sweldong Pinoy

Budget Pinoy

We'll continue to improve the designs for both Light and Dark Themes. The next version of Thirteenth Month Android app and our other apps will include Dark Theme. We're also experimenting on adding Dark Theme support on our web apps.

Sweldong Pinoy on Instagram

Sweldong Pinoy is now on Instagram! Follow us at https://www.instagram.com/sweldongpinoy.

2020 Vision

Thank you to everyone who uses our apps and sends us feedback. We're looking forward to more improvements, additional features, and more apps. Feel free to send us your comments, suggestions, or messages. If you are on Twitter, follow @SweldongPinoy and if you are on Facebook, like our Facebook Page.

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Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

New Budget Pinoy

A few months ago, we have released an Android app to help you in budgetting for your expenses and finding out what your asking rate should be based on your projected budget. We called it Budget Pinoy. Since then, we have re-worked it and developed a web app. And now, we are happy to announce to launch the all new Budget Pinoy.

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. You can try Budget Pinoy at https://www.budgetpinoy.com. The Android app has been updated to version 1.0 and can now be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

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. Since there's only a few days left in the year, the apps are already using the PhilHealth contribution rates for 2020.

Budget Pinoy Android App

Let us know how we can improve the Budget Pinoy apps to help you more in your budgetting needs.

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Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog