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Kasambahay (Domestic-Worker) Monthly Minimum Wage by Region (NWPC/RTWPB) — NCR, Cebu, Iloilo, Davao
The kasambahay (domestic-worker) monthly minimum wage set by each Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in its own "DW" wage order, for the four LiveInPH regions: NCR, Central Visayas (Cebu), Western Visayas (Iloilo) and Davao Region. One row per wage order. There is no single national kasambahay figure — each region moves on its own board's clock, and Central Visayas (₱7,000) genuinely sits above Western Visayas and Davao (₱6,500).
Read this before citing a figure
PRIMARY-VIA-NAMED-SECONDARY. Each figure is a signed RTWPB "DW" wage order, but the NWPC region pages and PNA/DOLE releases would not open for us (checked 2026-09-04), so the amounts are carried by named primary reporting corroborating each order rather than read live off the issuer's own page (NCR-DW-06 additionally has a public NWPC PDF). Confidence is high: two or more independent named outlets agree on each order number, amount and effective date.
The data
| period | region_code | region_name | city | monthly_min_php | order_no | effective_date | previous_monthly_min_php | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10 | VII | Central Visayas (Region VII) | Cebu | 7000 | Wage Order No. ROVII-DW-05 | 2025-10-04 | 6000 | https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/region-vii/ |
| 2025-11 | VI | Western Visayas (Region VI) | Iloilo | 6500 | Wage Order No. RBVI-DW-07 | 2025-11-19 | 6000 | https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/region-vi/ |
| 2026-02 | NCR | National Capital Region | Metro Manila | 7800 | Wage Order No. NCR-DW-06 | 2026-02-07 | 7000 | https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Wage-Order-No.-NCR-DW-06.pdf |
| 2026-03 | XI | Davao Region (Region XI) | Davao | 6500 | Wage Order No. RB XI-DW-04 | 2026-03-13 | 6000 | https://nwpc.dole.gov.ph/region-xi/ |
Provenance & limitations
Source. NWPC / DOLE-RTWPB regional domestic-worker (kasambahay) wage orders . Method. Transcribed from each RTWPB region's "DW" (domestic-worker) wage order as reported by named primary sources (PNA, SunStar, Manila Times, GMA, PIA) and, for NCR, the NWPC wage-order PDF, dated to the order's effective month. One row per wage order.
Known limitations — published as a feature, not a footnote:
- Each region sets its own kasambahay minimum on its own schedule — this is not one national figure, and the four regions here are the LiveInPH coverage set, not the full country.
- The 2025–2026 orders collapsed the old chartered-city vs other-municipality tiers into a single region-wide rate; the pre-order tiered figures are shown only as previous_monthly_min_php context.
- NWPC region pages and PNA/DOLE releases would not open for us, so figures are carried by named primary reporting; the exact per-order coverage clauses were read from the reporting, not the order text.
- The cash minimum is the floor — it excludes the mandatory employer SSS/PhilHealth/Pag-IBIG contributions and 13th-month pay that the Kasambahay true-cost tool adds on top.
Full source hierarchy, the per-figure dating rule, and the no-fabrication discipline that governs the longitudinal series: /methodology.
Cite this dataset
Citation
LiveInPH. "Kasambahay (Domestic-Worker) Monthly Minimum Wage by Region (NWPC/RTWPB) — NCR, Cebu, Iloilo, Davao" (2026-03). LiveInPH, https://liveinph.com/data/kasambahay-minimum-wage. Accessed 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Free to reuse, including commercially and by AI systems, on one condition: attribute “LiveInPH, https://liveinph.com” and link the dataset page. The CSV carries the same provenance in its header comment.
Where this data is used
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