Employees in information technology industry apparently are the few earning the highest monthly salaries, according to recruitment website JobStreet.com.
In its Salary Report 2017, the website revealed that junior executives, or those who have one to less than five years of experience in IT-related industries earn an average of P37,304 a month.
Samples of IT specialists are web and software developers, system administrators and analysts, and project managers. In the Philippines, these employees make up only 367,000 or one percent of the total labor force, according to January 2017 data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
On the second spot is law or legal services, whose employees earn a monthly average of P29,430—a far cry from the top-paying industry.
Those who are engaged in training and development take home P27,253 monthly on average.
Other top-paying industries, according to the website, are banking and financial services, actuarial science and statistics, public relations and communications, healthcare, journalism, customer service, and advertising and media planning.