Private Sector And Government Worker Salaries And Conditions Of Employment In The Philippines
Private Sector and Government Worker Salaries and Conditions of Employment in the Philippines
Submitted by: Mark Leo L. Francisco
Submitted to: Prof. Castillo J. O.
Subject Code: WSALADM
Section Code: BHR0401
Date Submitted: February 12, 2015
Introduction There has been much debate over whether public sector employees are overpaid or underpaid, relative to their private sector counterparts, and how to make an "apples-to-apples" comparison of the compensation received by each since job functions are oftentimes quite different. My study seeks to address this issue in light of a new report that suggests that state and local government workers receive less total compensation than comparable private-sector workers, and to examine how issues not addressed in the study might affect those conclusions.
TOPICS:
I. Are Public Sector Workers in the Philippines Undercompensated?
II. Are Public Sector Workers in the Philippines Overcompensated?
III. Compensation Comparisons
IV. Productivity Differences
V. Job Security Differences
VI. Rising Numbers of Government Workers
I. Are Public Sector Workers in the Philippines Undercompensated?
The benefits that government employees receive are supposed to support their families’ everyday needs, precisely because their compensation is not enough. Most of them are buried in debt, borrowing in advance their monthly salaries or relying on credit cards to make it until their next payday.
Most government workers are not high officials with top salaries and perks, who get paid in thousands just for attending the board meetings of their government corporations, or are driven around in gas-free vehicles. Most government workers’ salaries are eaten up by their household bills, their pay hardly enough to cover the skyrocketing prices of basic commodities, oil, gasoline, electricity and water bills.
According to The Manila times, there will be no pay hike for government employees this year and the next, not until 2016 if ever the
Submitted by: Mark Leo L. Francisco
Submitted to: Prof. Castillo J. O.
Subject Code: WSALADM
Section Code: BHR0401
Date Submitted: February 12, 2015
Introduction There has been much debate over whether public sector employees are overpaid or underpaid, relative to their private sector counterparts, and how to make an "apples-to-apples" comparison of the compensation received by each since job functions are oftentimes quite different. My study seeks to address this issue in light of a new report that suggests that state and local government workers receive less total compensation than comparable private-sector workers, and to examine how issues not addressed in the study might affect those conclusions.
TOPICS:
I. Are Public Sector Workers in the Philippines Undercompensated?
II. Are Public Sector Workers in the Philippines Overcompensated?
III. Compensation Comparisons
IV. Productivity Differences
V. Job Security Differences
VI. Rising Numbers of Government Workers
I. Are Public Sector Workers in the Philippines Undercompensated?
The benefits that government employees receive are supposed to support their families’ everyday needs, precisely because their compensation is not enough. Most of them are buried in debt, borrowing in advance their monthly salaries or relying on credit cards to make it until their next payday.
Most government workers are not high officials with top salaries and perks, who get paid in thousands just for attending the board meetings of their government corporations, or are driven around in gas-free vehicles. Most government workers’ salaries are eaten up by their household bills, their pay hardly enough to cover the skyrocketing prices of basic commodities, oil, gasoline, electricity and water bills.
According to The Manila times, there will be no pay hike for government employees this year and the next, not until 2016 if ever the