Every number an Iloilo move turns on, read live from a sourced ledger

Iloilo against Manila and Cebu

What the meter costs to run

MPIW water — the two-tranche basic rate

Source: SunStar / LWUA-approved MPIW tranche schedule

Why there is no worked bill here. Unlike a tiered minimum, MPIW's current (2026-03) tranche publishes only the ₱28.67/cu.m basic rate; no 0–10 cu.m minimum charge exists in any source, and it is not derivable — the earlier 2025-11 tranche billed ₱252.02 on a ₱25.2/cu.m rate, so the minimum is not a clean ten-times multiple. These rows therefore do not sum to a monthly bill, and none is invented.

Sourcing note. FABRICATION REMOVED (2026-07-12). The 2026-03 `minimumFor10CuM` of ₱286.70 has been DROPPED from this ledger, at top level and in the history point. It shipped here as a sourced tariff when it is 28.67 × 10 arithmetic that nobody has checked against a bill. REASON CORRECTED 2026-08-20: the earlier version of this note said ₱286.70 "was never a published MPIW figure" and that "no source publishes a post-March-2026 0–10 cu.m. minimum". Both statements were false, and this ledger's own 2026-03 `source` refutes them. PNA, 3 Oct 2025, writes that a household "will have to pay PHP252.02 in November and PHP286.70 upon the implementation of the second tranche in March next year", and the Daily Tribune, 5 Oct 2025, prints the same pair. ₱286.70 is therefore FORECAST ARITHMETIC CARRIED BY TWO NAMED SECONDARIES off one October 2025 briefing, not a tariff anybody published. The decision to keep it out is unchanged, and rests on three things: (1) it is exactly the rate × 10, and the Tranche-1 precedent disproves that method — the published Tranche-1 0–10 cu.m. bill is ₱252.02 (SunStar) where 25.20 × 10 would give ₱252.00, so MPIW's minimum charge is not a clean multiple of the basic rate and cannot be inferred from it; (2) SunStar Iloilo and the Daily Guardian covered the same briefing and carry only the ₱252.02 figure; (3) nobody, MPIW included, has reconfirmed the March figure since the tranche actually landed. mpiwTariffSchema.minimumFor10CuM was made optional on 2026-07-12 precisely so the absence could be expressed. SOURCING GAP: no PRIMARY source publishes this tariff at all. MPIW's own 'latest approved tariff schedule' (mpiw.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/WATER-RATES.jpg) is still the Nov 3, 2018 sheet with a ₱200.00 minimum, and miwd.gov.ph/water-rates/ is an empty stub. The ₱28.67/cu.m. rate exists in the public record only via named secondaries (SunStar Iloilo, PNA, Daily Guardian, Daily Tribune). Do not re-derive ₱286.70 and do not ship it as MPIW's published minimum. To close the gap: a photographed post-March-2026 MPIW residential bill, or an MPIW-issued tariff sheet.

Home internet (Converge national plans)

Dated primary, not an editorial band. These four are Converge's own published national list prices (WiFi-6 modem included), retrieved 2026-09-04 — a dated primary, not an editorial band. Converge does not price per city, so they apply in Iloilo. PLDT, Globe and Sky Fiber also serve the city; their Iloilo plan prices were not pulled this pass, so they are named without a peso figure rather than estimated.

Editorial baseline, not a measured index. The bars are hand-written low–high asking-rent ranges with their arithmetic midpoint — never a sampled median, and no p25/p75 exists because no listings have been counted. A quarterly trend line appears only once two real listing samples are collected; Iloilo portal density is thin, and much of the long-tail supply lives in Facebook groups.

Where the areas sit

A relative locator, oriented on the Iloilo Business Park BPO core in Mandurriao. It reads the same neighborhood ledger as the scorecards, so distance and rent band line up with the cards above.

RTWPB Region VI minimum wage

Source: NWPC / DOLE-RTWPB Region VI — Current Daily Minimum Wage Rates

Wage Order No. RBVI-29, effective 2025-11-19. Region VI splits by sector and employment size, not by geographical class — there is no Class A / Class B here — and the rates are basic wage with no separate COLA line. The order covers all six Region VI provinces, including the city of Iloilo; the companion ₱6,500/month domestic-worker minimum is a separate order.

Staple-food prices — national retail benchmark

Source: PSA national retail price situationer (early August 2026), via The Manila Times

National, not Iloilo. These are PSA national retail averages, shown as an orientation benchmark. PSA does run an Iloilo-City retail survey, but it is reachable only through PSA OpenSTAT (which returned HTTP 403) and a banned aggregator, so the Iloilo/Region VI retail basket is published as a documented gap, not estimated.

The FX benchmark, the deposit rate and the MP2 dividend are national figures, shown to size an Iloilo budget — they are not Iloilo-specific rates.

BSP reference rates

Source: BSP Reference Exchange Rate Bulletin, 10 July 2026 (LSEG NY close 09 July 2026)

Single bulletin-date snapshots, not monthly averages. A BSP reference rate is not a transfer or mid-market rate. Each currency carries two BSP points so far (May and July 2026), shown here as the latest snapshot rather than a drawn trend line.

InstaPay send fees

InstaPay is not price-capped by the BSP, so the fee is per-institution. 9 tracked institutions publish a free individual send — Bank of the Philippine Islands, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, Union Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank of the Philippines, BDO Unibank, Inc., Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company and others — while GCash and Maya charge ₱10.

How every figure is collected, dated and verified is documented on the methodology page.