Monthly pay
How much is a virtual assistant salary in the Philippines?
About ₱45,717 a month at 40 hours a week, the median of 34 live posts; posts paying in pesos sat lower, at ₱30,000.
VA pay comes from two different worlds. Philippine employers and staffing firms on JobStreet mostly post a monthly peso salary, and the 8 posts that did had a median range of ₱25,000 to ₱37,500. Foreign clients on OnlineJobs.ph mostly post dollars an hour or a month, which we converted at the BSP reference rate of 23 October 2026. Put on one scale, the dollar posts sit higher and spread wider.
- Paid in pesos₱30,000
- Paid in dollars₱54,921
- JobStreet, Virtual Assistant₱19,000 to ₱29,000
- DOLE CareerInfo PH₱18,000 to ₱33,000
Base: our sample, dot = median, line = lowest to highest post; hourly and weekly pay converted at 40 hours a week. Sources: JobStreet and DOLE, read 23 October 2026; neither shows a sample size.
Per hour
How much is a virtual assistant paid per hour?
₱264 an hour at the median, from ₱95 to ₱793 across 34 posts.
In dollars, the 12 posts with a US dollar hourly rate had a median range of $4.5 to $5, lowest $3, highest $15. At ₱63.419 to the dollar, $5 is ₱317 an hour.
The rate you receive is not the reference rate: your bank or payment service sets its own and may charge a fee. Our guide to getting paid by foreign clients as a freelancer covers the options.
- Under ₱150 an hour2 posts
- ₱150 to ₱1996 posts
- ₱200 to ₱2498 posts
- ₱250 to ₱2994 posts
- ₱300 to ₱3498 posts
- ₱350 and up6 posts
Base: 34 of 50 live virtual assistant posts with a currency, a unit and both ends of the range (30 OnlineJobs.ph and 20 JobStreet posts read 23 October 2026). Midpoint of each range, at the BSP rate of the same day.
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What pays more
What makes one virtual assistant job pay more than another?
The schedule and the board did; experience did not. US-hours posts paid ₱317 an hour against ₱222 for other schedules.
- US hours (11 posts)₱317
- Other or no schedule (23 posts)₱222
- OnlineJobs.ph (21 posts)₱317
- JobStreet (13 posts)₱216
- Sales and lead generation (6 posts)₱257
- General admin (10 posts)₱200
- Full time (21 posts)₱258
- Part time (11 posts)₱222
Base: 34 of 50 live virtual assistant posts with a currency, a unit and both ends of the range (30 OnlineJobs.ph and 20 JobStreet posts read 23 October 2026). Midpoint of each range, at the BSP rate of the same day. Groups under 5 posts are left out.
Finding: posts that asked for experience did not pay more
Freelance pay
What comes off freelance virtual assistant pay?
As a freelancer you pay all of your SSS contribution, your PhilHealth premium and your income tax yourself, and no 13th month pay comes on top.
An employer pays part of these for an employee. A freelancer is a self-employed member, who “shall pay both the employer and the employee contributions” to SSS (RA 11199, Sec. 19-A). 13th month pay is owed by employers to employees (PD 851 as amended), and so is the night differential (Labor Code, Art. 86).
What the law sets for a self-employed VA
- 15%of your monthly salary credit to SSS, up to a credit of ₱35,000; an employee pays 5% (RA 11199)
- 5%of monthly income to PhilHealth, on income from ₱10,000 to ₱100,000 (RA 11223, Sec. 10)
- 8%income tax on yearly gross receipts above ₱250,000, if you choose this option over the graduated rates (TRAIN law, RA 10963)
Source: the three laws as published on Lawphil, read 23 October 2026. The 8% option is open while gross receipts stay under the VAT threshold.
Worked example: a freelancer earning the sample median, ₱45,717 a month
- ₱5,250SSS, 15% of the ₱35,000 creditAn employee would pay ₱1,750
- ₱2,286PhilHealth, 5% of ₱45,717
- ₱1,991Income tax a month, 8% of ₱548,604 a year minus ₱250,000, over 12
- ₱36,190Left before Pag-IBIG, transfer fees and your internet bill79% of the gross
Base: the sample median, 34 posts read 23 October 2026, at 40 hours a week, declared as monthly earnings; rates from the laws above.
Vs call center
Do virtual assistants earn more than call center agents?
In the posts we read, yes: peso VA posts had a median range of ₱25,000 to ₱37,500 a month, against ₱20,000 to ₱25,000 for call center agents.
The call center figure comes from a separate sample: 36 call center agent posts with a monthly salary on JobStreet, read 25 September 2026. The VA figure is the 8 VA posts with a monthly peso salary, read 23 October 2026. A call center salary comes with the night differential and 13th month pay by law, so compare like with like in our call center salary guide.
- VA, low end (8 peso posts)₱25,000
- VA, high end₱37,500
- Call center agent, low end (36 posts)₱20,000
- Call center agent, high end₱25,000
Base: VA, 8 of 50 posts with a monthly peso range, read 23 October 2026. Call center: 36 of 50 JobStreet posts, read 25 September 2026. Separate samples, never pooled.
Raise your rate
How do you get a higher virtual assistant rate?
Aim at the kinds of posts that paid more in our sample: US hours, sales and lead generation work, and OnlineJobs.ph.
Each of those groups had a higher median than its alternative in the comparison above. Before you quote a rate, convert it at today’s rate and subtract what you will pay yourself as a freelancer, so a dollar offer and a peso salary meet on the same terms. If the night shift or the phone is not for you, the lower-paying groups are still work you can start with. Your training plan shows where you stand: