(a) Househelpers shall be paid the following minimum wage rates:
(1) Eight hundred pesos (P800.00) a month for househelpers in Manila, Quezon, Pasay, and Caloocan cities and municipalities of Makati, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Malabon, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Pasig, Marikina, Valenzuela, Taguig and Pateros in Metro Manila and in highly urbanized cities;
(2) Six hundred fifty pesos (P650.00) a month for those in other chartered cities and firstclass municipalities; and
(3) Five hundred fifty pesos (P550.00) a month for those in other municipalities. Provided, That the employers shall review the employment contracts of their househelpers every three (3) years with the end in view of improving the terms and conditions thereof.
Provided, further, That those househelpers who are receiving at least One Thousand pesos (P1,000.00) shall be covered by the Social Security System (SSS) and be entitled to all the benefits provided thereunder.
Editor’s notes from DOLE (2)
As amended by R.A. No. 7655 (1993). Note that Sec. 24 of R.A. No. 10361 prescribes that the minimum wage of domestic workers shall not be less than: (a) Two thousand five hundred pesos (P2,500.00) a month for those employed in the National Capital Region (NCR); (b) Two thousand pesos (P2,000.00) a month for those employed in chartered cities and first class municipalities; and (c) One thousand five hundred pesos (P1,500.00) a month for those employed in other municipalities. See also Wage Order No. CAR-DW-01 (2015), Prescribing New Minimum Wage Rates for Domestic Workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Wage Order No. RB VI - D.W. 01 (2015), Prescribing New Minimum Wage Rates for Domestic Workers in Region VI – Western Visayas, Kasambahay Wage Order No. RB VIII-01 (2016), Prescribing New Minimum Wage Rates for Domestic Workers in Eastern Visayas, raising the rates to two thousand five hundred pesos (P2,500.00) a month for those employed in chartered cities and first class municipalities; and to two thousand pesos (P2,000.00) a month for those employed in other municipalities.
Sec. 30 (Social and Other Benefits) of R.A. No. 10361 requires that a domestic worker who has rendered at least one (1) month of service be covered by the SSS, PhilHealth, and HDMF or Pag-IBIG, and be entitled to all the benefits in accordance with the pertinent provisions provided by law.
Text and numbering follow the Department of Labor and Employment's 2022 edition of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended and renumbered under DOLE Department Advisory No. 01, series of 2015. Former article numbers are shown in brackets. Notes are DOLE's editorial notes. Amendments after that edition are not included. For information and research only, and not legal advice. For certified copies, refer to the Official Gazette or the issuing agency.