How To Hire A Great Worker from the Philippines

A: Yes, there is a middle class here. Php45000 or $1K/month income for a family with 3 children aged 5-10 years living in a fully paid house with 1 car = lower middle class. Php90000 or $2K/month net income for the same family = still lower middle class. Php450000 or $10K/month net income for the same family = middle class. Php900K or $20K/month for the same family = upper middle class. Php1.8 million or $40K/month = class A.

A: Php1500 or around $40/week, translating to $160/month, is manual labor-intensive minimum wage (around $1/hour). Labor-intensive jobs include carpentry, auto mechanical work, field construction work, culinary work, clerical jobs, etc.

A: An entry level graphics designer with an undergraduate visual communications degree from one of the top 3universities here in the Philippines, with "excellent", "above average" skills, knowledge, scholastic achievements and professional passion, expects Php20K/month or around $500/month (160 work hours/month). An "average" person with an undergraduate visual communications degree at one of the top 20 universities here offering undergraduate bachelor courses under fine arts expect Php12000/month or around $300/month (160 hours). A "below average" person with an undergraduate visual communications degree from one of the top 50 universities here offering undergraduate bachelor courses under fine arts expects Php10K/month or around $250/month (160 work hours/month). Self taught individuals with "below average" to "average" skills expect around Php9K/month or around $200/month (160 hours).

A: Php15K/month, 160 hours, or around $350/month sounds just about right for someone with a relevant undergraduate degree from one of the top 10 or 20 universities here, entry level, with "average" skills.

A: Php17K/month or around $400/month is just about right for a person with 4-9 years relevant experience and a relevant undergraduate degree from one of the top 10 or 20 universities here, with "slightly above average" skills.

A: That's around Php50K/month or $1200/month. Entry level? Waay waay off the mark. It's around Php12000/month for someone with a relevant undergraduate psychology degree from one of the top 20 universities here. The top 10 local and international companies here pay someone with a relevant undergraduate degree from one of the top 5 universities here as well as 5 to 10 years worth of relevant work experience from one of the top 50 local and international companies here, with "above average" skills, Php30K/month or around 800/month.

A: Php11K/month or around $250/month is just about right, for an entry level person with a relevant undergraduate degree from one of the top 20 universities here and a licensure board passer, entry level.

A: Php13000/month or $300/month sounds just about right, entry level, undergraduate degree holder from one of the top 20 universities here and a licensure board passer, with "average" skills and achievements.

A: Entry level? Inaccurate. More like Php15K/month or around $350/month, entry level, average skills and achievements, relevant undergraduate degree holder from one of the top 20 universities here.

A: Php15K/month or around $350/month, entry level, post graduate degree holder from one of the top 20 universities here, board passer and "average" skills and achievement souns just about right.

A: $20-30/day, 20 work days/month = $400 to $600/month or around Php16K to Php24K/month. For someone with a relevant undergraduate visual communications degree and a relevant 5 to 10-year work experience, "average" skills and achievements considered, then that sounds just about right. Though if this person had "excellent" skills and achievements, in and out of the university, and a post graduate visual communications degree holder from the top university here, which is the University of the Philippines as well as with a 10-year relevant work experience in one of the top 3 local or international companies here, this person would most likely expect Php75K/month or $1.5K/month starting wages, 160 hours/month. This person would possibly be more motivated to work with personal career achievements and personal career growth in mind, such as bagging relevant international advertising concept and design awards as well as getting job posts and project offers from any of the top 5 or 10 international Western corporations outside the country, so this person would most likely target working at one of the top 3 local and international companies here and abroad, if given the chance.

A: In the global business industry operating in a global capital economy, of which these are instances that are statistically and factually correct last time I checked, my inference is: Outsourcing is like gravity. Ummm... My advice is for "your own people" to start their own businesses and compete in profitable industries, to maximize the benefits of outsourcing, to drive down prices, to improve the quality of similar products/services, to formulate new concepts and ideas for new beneficial products/services and to build more gainful business and employment opportunities for everyone in the global society. This is one of my opinions and should not be misinterpreted as a universally moral, ethical and beneficial way to do anything relevant to this. I am not saying all "your people" could be expected to do this. Rather, I am sharing my opinion but will not act to implement such a theory because I already have enough problems on my own to resolve, personally and professionally.

A: Hmmm... Let's see... Being "dependent" on the labor force of another country over building more businesses, improving the quality of similar products/services, driving down the prices of products/services so more people can gain access to it globally, formulating new concepts and ideas for new products/services with new benefits, training more people globally in areas which can improve their lives and professional as well as business careers and building more gainful business and employment opportunities? I for one would pick the latter over the former, primarily because being "dependent" in the negative sense is a lot different than the benefits I outlined here. Again, this is another one of my opinions.

A: I for one believe (this is again another one of my opinions) not only on gov't handouts but also on company retirement benefit promises. And, my opinion for "waking them up" means them not being dependent on gov't handouts and company retirement benefit promises. What then is my inference for them to depend on? Themselves. How in my opinion could they most likely be able to depend on their own, making their ideas for a gainful and beneficial financial and professional life a reality? Become a creditor and build brick and mortar or online B2B and B2C businesses in profitable industries. Then, become a supplier of products/services. Then, become a middle man. Then, become an advertiser. Then, become an advertisement publisher. Then, become a real estate owner renting out or leasing real estate. At this point, become an oil, gold, real estate and stock investor. Afterwards, invest back in the economy's most profitable areas. Any capital economy benefits from more creditors, more business opportunities, more employment opportunities, lower priced higher quality products/services, new beneficial ideas and concepts for new products/services, more investors and more taxes. This is again one of my opinions.

A: You're most likely correct. Though in my opinion: It "can" or "cannot" be negative but rather positive and even vice versa, because I believe results most likely depend more on the ways strategies, techniques, systems and processes are formulated, tested, improved, implemented and monitored for further development. This is again one of my opinions.

A: I tackled such a similar discussion in another thread. As a market fundamentalist, my opinion about this is: There is a buyer and supplier market for lower priced-lower quality products/services. There is a buyer and supplier market for average priced-average quality products/services. There is a buyer and supplier market for mid priced-mid quality products/services. There is a buyer and supplier market for high priced-high quality products/services. There is a buyer and supplier market for ridiculously high priced-limited, avant garde quality products/services. Up to anyone to find the right market for them. If they can't find it, my opinion is for them to build that market. In my relevant experience, there was no employment nor business opportunities for the blind here back then, aside from being street musicians and masseurs, not that these jobs aren't beneficial both financially and professionally, but rather what if a blind person here cannot become a street musician nor a masseur? I then noticed blind people who cannot take any of the jobs I mentioned lobbied for the government to impose policies which will push companies here to employ blind people rather than train themselves to be competent at the jobs being offered by companies here. I then noticed companies here did not have resources which the blind needs to properly do their tasks, particularly the right software. What did I do? I built the employment and business opportunity on my own for blind and other disabled people here, rather than wait for the government to impose such a policy, which could or could not happen, and for those companies to start opening their employment opportunities to blind and other disabled people here. Hmmm... A graphics designer with an undergraduate or post graduate degree from a local university there could build B2B partnerships with established companies there and hire their graphics designer friends. Their graphics designer friends could in turn outsource their work to people with the same skills in developing countries, so those graphics designer friends can take more jobs and earn more time and money to do more things which can be profitable for them, financially and personally. Again, these are my opinions.

A: I may not be American, but totally blind I am. Considering the things I mentioned above, I for one, as another one of my opinions, cannot "see" your point of this trend solely being a downhill economic catastrophe for Americans. Rather, results depend on variables I mentioned above and its utility. These are again my opinions.

A: First, it's Marx, not Max, as clearly seen in my posts - Even my screen reader "sees" it. Second, I already know this, so my opinion is for you to assume this to most often than not be the case with other people... More polite to do so, in my opinion. My purpose is to share my relevant experience, test results, inferences and opinions, not impose such things for others to do. It is up to them to decide what is wrong and what is right for them, in my opinion, and getting more beneficial information about different sides of a topic is my main purpose of contributing my experience, test results, inferences and opinions, in my opinion.

A: Again, another statement which must be stricken down to be more polite in such a discussion, in my opinion. Assuming more positive things about any person you discuss anything with is more polite than otherwise, in my opinion. Again, these are my opinions, which must not be misconstrued/misinterpreted by anyone to be something which I say is the most universally and statistically correct situation in any time frame and in any part of the universe. These are my own experience, test formulation inferences, test result comparative analysis inferences and improvement/development implementation inferences. My main purpose, in my opinion, is to contribute more relevant information about different sides of the topic and relevant sub topics.

A: Yes, though in my opinion more dependent on the utilization of the Internet and the purposes of the user along with this person's ideas about benefits, inferences and concepts as well as how target people and things of the user will react to what the user implements. What is "normal" for a global economy, in your opinion? I don't think there's anything "normal" in a perpetually changing economy with more than a few billion global economy players and variables, in my opinion. I think Karl Marx's uneven development principle is at play here or in any part of the world, in my opinion.

A: People anywhere in the world who rely on work outsourced to them by businesses, corporations and individual marketers are lucky to have you and are most likely hoping a large percentage of those people would have more business and professional sense some time soon. This is again one of my opinions.