Percentage of underpaid employees in service sector in the Philippines 2009-2018

According to the source underpaid or low-paid employees are wage and salary workers with hourly basic pay (in primary job) below two-thirds of the median hourly basic pay.

Annualized data for 2014 from the Labor Force Survey is the average of April, July and October survey rounds which excluded Leyte province. Annualized data for 2015 from the Labor Force Survey is the average of January, April, July and October survey rounds which excluded Leyte province.The use of the annualized 2015 LFS data using the four survey rounds was based on the result of the referendum among members of the Interagency Committee on Labor and Productivity Statistics.