Filipino Software Engineers Are Underpaid

Jim Clyde Monge
2 min readOct 4, 2021
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I know because I am one of them.

When I got my first job straight out of college, I got hired by an outsourcing company in the Philippines. My gross annual income that time was around $4,000. Considering the cheap cost of living in the Philippines, I thought this amount is just enough to get by comfortably.

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