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Average daily pay during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how average daily pay changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1 Rodrigo Duterte 30 Jun 2016 – 30 Jun 2022 +13.1% Q1 2016 → Q1 2022+2.1%/yr
2PFP Bongbong Marcos 30 Jun 2022 – now +9.3% Q1 2022 → Q3 2026+2.0%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. ₱ per day, in today's money, wage and salary workers · Philippine Statistics Authority (OpenSTAT), Labour Force Survey, average daily basic pay of wage and salary workers in all industries, the January, April, July and October rounds from 2016, adjusted for inflation with the CPI · Philippines data · as of Oct 2026.

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority (OpenSTAT: national and provincial product accounts, Labour Force Survey, consumer prices, censuses), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Residential Property Price Index), GISCO, World Bank (population; Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; mayors checked against the city lists and the election results. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy