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.

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Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

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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Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog