SSL 2021 Table | Salary Increase for Teachers, Nurses, Gov't Employees

Good news to all government employees! There’s a new round of salary increases beginning January 1, 2021!

More than 1.4 million employees of the Philippine government — including public school teachers, nurses, doctors, and other civil service workers — are set to receive higher salaries this new year 2021 under the approved Salary Standardization Law (SSL).

Background: On January 8, 2020, the “Salary Standardization Law of 2019” was signed into law which will roll out four (4) tranches of automatic salary increases every year, beginning 2020 until 2023.

Check here how much your salary will increase this year and in upcoming years!

SSL 2021 Salary Table for Government Employees

Article Guide

What’s your Salary Grade (SG)?

The first tranche of the newly-approved SSL V in 2020 is retroactive which means all eligible government employees received the benefit as if the law was approved at the start of the year 2020.

For 2021, the new salaries will take effect on January 1, 2021.

What’s the new salary of a government employee with the lowest Salary Grade (SG), that is SG 1, Step 1 under the approved Salary Standardization Law?

Based on the SSL V table below, a government employee ranked SG 1-1 received a new monthly salary of P11,551.00 in 2020 — a P483.00 increase from the previous monthly salary of P11,068.00.

But in 2021, looking at the SSL 6 (SSL VI) Table below, SG 1-1 employees will now have a higher monthly salary of P12,034.00 beginning January 2021.

SG 10-1 employees, meanwhile, received a monthly salary of P20,219.00 in 2020 but this will automatically increase to P21,205.00 starting January 2021.

Another example: SG 20-1 employees received P52,703.00 monthly salary in 2020 but this will automatically increase to P54,251.00 effective January 2021.

The highest-ranked government employees, i.e., those ranked SG 33 Step 2, will see their salary growing to P407,734.00 per month in 2020 then to P415,728.00 per month beginning January 2021.

How to use the SSL tables below to check your salary?

First, you should know your Salary Grade (SG) and Step. Now, look for the row corresponding to your SG then check the column corresponding to your Salary Step. The intersection between your SG and Step is the amount of your monthly salary.

Here are the SSL tables showing new monthly salaries of government employees.

SSL 2021 Table for Gov’t Employees

Government employees will receive the second tranche of salary increases beginning January 1, 2021.

The new salaries under SSL 6 can be seen in the SSL 2021 Table below.

SSL 6 Table of Salaries (SSL 2021)

SG	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8
1	12,034	12,134	12,236	12,339	12,442	12,545	12,651	12,756
2	12,790	12,888	12,987	13,087	13,187	13,288	13,390	13,493
3	13,572	13,677	13,781	13,888	13,995	14,101	14,210	14,319
4	14,400	14,511	14,622	14,735	14,848	14,961	15,077	15,192
5	15,275	15,393	15,511	15,630	15,750	15,871	15,993	16,115
6	16,200	16,325	16,450	16,577	16,704	16,832	16,962	17,092
7	17,179	17,311	17,444	17,578	17,713	17,849	17,985	18,124
8	18,251	18,417	18,583	18,751	18,920	19,091	19,264	19,438
9	19,552	19,715	19,880	20,046	20,214	20,382	20,553	20,725
10	21,205	21,382	21,561	21,741	21,923	22,106	22,291	22,477
11	23,877	24,161	24,450	24,742	25,038	25,339	25,643	25,952
12	26,052	26,336	26,624	26,915	27,210	27,509	27,811	28,117
13	28,276	28,589	28,905	29,225	29,550	29,878	30,210	30,547
14	30,799	31,143	31,491	31,844	32,200	32,561	32,927	33,297
15	33,575	33,953	34,336	34,724	35,116	35,513	35,915	36,323
16	36,628	37,044	37,465	37,891	38,323	38,760	39,203	39,650
17	39,986	40,444	40,907	41,376	41,851	42,332	42,818	43,311
18	43,681	44,184	44,694	45,209	45,732	46,261	46,796	47,338
19	48,313	49,052	49,803	50,566	51,342	52,130	52,932	53,746
20	54,251	55,085	55,934	56,796	57,673	58,564	59,469	60,389
21	60,901	61,844	62,803	63,777	64,768	65,774	66,797	67,837
22	68,415	69,481	70,565	71,666	72,785	73,923	75,079	76,253
23	76,907	78,111	79,336	80,583	81,899	83,235	84,594	85,975
24	86,742	88,158	89,597	91,059	92,545	94,057	95,592	97,152
25	98,886	100,500	102,140	103,808	105,502	107,224	108,974	110,753
26	111,742	113,565	115,419	117,303	119,217	121,163	123,140	125,150
27	126,267	128,329	130,423	132,552	134,715	136,914	139,149	141,420
28	142,683	145,011	147,378	149,784	152,228	154,714	157,239	159,804
29	161,231	163,863	166,537	169,256	172,018	174,826	177,679	180,579
30	182,191	185,165	188,187	191,259	194,380	197,553	200,777	204,054
31	268,121	273,358	278,697	284,140	289,691	295,349	301,117	306,999
32	319,660	326,107	332,682	339,392	346,236	353,218	360,342	367,609
33	403,620	415,728

SSL 2022 Table for Gov’t Employees

The third tranche of salary increases, SSL 7, will roll out effective January 1, 2022.

The new salaries of government employees under SSL 7 can be seen in the SSL 2022 Table below.

SSL 7 Table of Salaries (SSL 2022)

SG	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8
1	12,517	12,621	12,728	12,834	12,941	13,049	13,159	13,268
2	13,305	13,406	13,509	13,613	13,718	13,823	13,929	14,035
3	14,125	14,234	14,343	14,454	14,565	14,676	14,790	14,903
4	14,993	15,109	15,224	15,341	15,459	15,577	15,698	15,818
5	15,909	16,032	16,155	16,279	16,404	16,530	16,657	16,784
6	16,877	17,007	17,137	17,269	17,402	17,535	17,670	17,806
7	17,899	18,037	18,176	18,315	18,455	18,598	18,740	18,884
8	18,998	19,170	19,343	19,518	19,694	19,872	20,052	20,233
9	20,340	20,509	20,681	20,854	21,029	21,204	21,382	21,561
10	22,190	22,376	22,563	22,752	22,942	23,134	23,327	23,522
11	25,439	25,723	26,012	26,304	26,600	26,901	27,205	27,514
12	27,608	27,892	28,180	28,471	28,766	29,065	29,367	29,673
13	29,798	30,111	30,427	30,747	31,072	31,400	31,732	32,069
14	32,321	32,665	33,013	33,366	33,722	34,083	34,449	34,819
15	35,097	35,475	35,858	36,246	36,638	37,035	37,437	37,845
16	38,150	38,566	38,987	39,413	39,845	40,282	40,725	41,172
17	41,508	41,966	42,429	42,898	43,373	43,854	44,340	44,833
18	45,203	45,706	46,216	46,731	47,254	47,783	48,318	48,860
19	49,835	50,574	51,325	52,088	52,864	53,652	54,454	55,268
20	55,799	56,633	57,482	58,344	59,221	60,112	61,017	61,937
21	62,449	63,392	64,351	65,325	66,316	67,322	68,345	69,385
22	69,963	71,029	72,113	73,214	74,333	75,471	76,627	77,801
23	78,455	79,659	80,884	82,133	83,474	84,836	86,220	87,628
24	88,410	89,853	91,320	92,810	94,325	95,865	97,430	99,020
25	100,788	102,433	104,105	105,804	107,531	109,286	111,070	112,883
26	113,891	115,749	117,639	119,558	121,510	123,493	125,508	127,557
27	128,696	130,797	132,931	135,101	137,306	139,547	141,825	144,140
28	145,427	147,800	150,213	152,664	155,155	157,689	160,262	162,877
29	164,332	167,015	169,740	172,511	175,326	178,188	181,096	184,052
30	185,695	188,726	191,806	194,937	198,118	201,352	204,638	207,978
31	273,278	278,615	284,057	289,605	295,262	301,028	306,908	312,902
32	325,807	332,378	339,080	345,918	352,894	360,011	1,367,272	374,678
33	411,382	423,723

SSL 2023 Table for Gov’t Employees

The fourth and final tranche of salary increases, under SSL 8, will take effect beginning January 1, 2023.

The new salaries of government employees under SSL 8 can be seen in the SSL 2023 Table below.

SSL 8 Table of Salaries (SSL 2023)

SG	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8
1	13,000	13,109	13,219	13,329	13,441	13,553	13,666	13,780
2	13,819	13,925	14,032	14,140	14,248	14,357	14,468	14,578
3	14,678	14,792	14,905	15,020	15,136	15,251	15,369	15,486
4	15,586	15,706	15,827	15,948	16,071	16,193	16,318	16,443
5	16,543	16,671	16,799	16,928	17,057	17,189	17,321	17,453
6	17,553	17,688	17,824	17,962	18,100	18,238	18,379	18,520
7	18,620	18,763	18,907	19,053	19,198	19,346	19,494	19,644
8	19,744	19,923	20,104	20,285	20,468	20,653	20,840	21,029
9	21,129	21,304	21,483	21,663	21,844	22,026	22,210	22,396
10	23,176	23,370	23,565	23,762	23,961	24,161	24,363	24,567
11	27,000	27,284	27,573	27,865	28,161	28,462	28,766	29,075
12	29,165	29,449	29,737	30,028	30,323	30,622	30,924	31,230
13	31,320	31,633	31,949	32,269	32,594	32,922	33,254	33,591
14	33,843	34,187	34,535	34,888	35,244	35,605	35,971	36,341
15	36,619	36,997	37,380	37,768	38,160	38,557	38,959	39,367
16	39,672	40,088	40,509	40,935	41,367	41,804	42,247	42,694
17	43,030	43,488	43,951	44,420	44,895	45,376	45,862	46,355
18	46,725	47,228	47,738	48,253	48,776	49,305	49,840	50,382
19	51,357	52,096	52,847	53,610	54,386	55,174	55,976	56,790
20	57,347	58,181	59,030	59,892	60,769	61,660	62,565	63,485
21	63,997	64,940	65,899	66,873	67,864	68,870	69,893	70,933
22	71,511	72,577	73,661	74,762	75,881	77,019	78,175	79,349
23	80,003	81,207	82,432	83,683	85,049	86,437	87,847	89,281
24	90,078	91,548	93,043	94,562	96,105	97,674	99,268	100,888
25	102,690	104,366	106,069	107,800	109,560	111,348	113,166	115,012
26	116,040	117,933	119,858	121,814	123,803	125,823	127,876	129,964
27	131,124	133,264	135,440	137,650	139,897	142,180	144,501	146,859
28	148,171	150,589	153,047	155,545	158,083	160,664	163,286	165,951
29	167,432	170,166	172,943	175,766	178,634	181,550	184,513	187,525
30	189,199	192,286	195,425	198,615	201,856	205,151	208,499	211,902
31	278,434	283,872	289,416	295,069	300,833	306,708	312,699	318,806
32	331,954	338,649	345,478	352,445	359,553	366,804	374,202	381,748
33	419,144	431,718

SSL 2020 Table for Gov’t Employees

Here’s the new Salary Grade (SG) table for SSL 2020 showing the first tranche of salary increases under the approved Salary Standardization Law of 2019. The salary increase under SSL 5 took effect starting January 1, 2020.

SSL 5 Table of Salaries (SSL 2020)

SG	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8
1	11,551	11,647	11,745	11,843	11,942	12,042	12,143	12,244
2	12,276	12,369	12,464	12,560	12,657	12,754	12,852	12,950
3	13,019	13,119	13,220	13,322	13,424	13,527	13,631	13,736
4	13,807	13,914	14,020	14,128	14,236	14,345	14,456	14,567
5	14,641	14,754	14,867	14,981	15,096	15,212	15,329	15,446
6	15,524	15,643	15,763	15,884	16,007	16,129	16,253	16,378
7	16,458	16,585	16,713	16,841	16,970	17,101	17,231	17,364
8	17,505	17,663	17,823	17,984	18,146	18,310	18,476	18,643
9	18,763	18,920	19,078	19,238	19,399	19,561	19,725	19,890
10	20,219	20,388	20,558	20,731	20,903	21,079	21,254	21,432
11	22,316	22,600	22,889	23,181	23,477	23,778	24,082	24,391
12	24,495	24,779	25,067	25,358	25,653	25,952	26,254	26,560
13	26,754	27,067	27,383	27,703	28,028	28,356	28,688	29,025
14	29,277	29,621	29,969	30,322	30,678	31,039	31,405	31,775
15	32,053	32,431	32,814	33,202	33,594	33,991	34,393	34,801
16	35,106	35,522	35,943	36,369	36,801	37,238	37,681	38,128
17	38,464	38,922	39,385	39,854	40,329	40,810	41,296	41,789
18	42,159	42,662	43,172	43,687	44,210	44,739	45,274	45,816
19	46,791	47,530	48,281	49,044	49,820	50,608	51,410	52,224
20	52,703	53,537	54,386	55,248	56,125	57,016	57,921	58,841
21	59,353	60,296	61,255	62,229	63,220	64,226	65,249	66,289
22	66,867	67,933	69,017	70,118	71,237	72,375	73,531	74,705
23	75,359	76,563	77,788	79,034	80,324	81,635	82,967	84,321
24	85,074	86,462	87,874	89,308	90,766	92,248	93,753	95,283
25	96,985	98,568	100,176	101,811	103,473	105,162	106,879	108,623
26	109,593	111,381	113,200	115,047	116,925	118,833	120,772	122,744
27	123,839	125,861	127,915	130,003	132,125	134,281	136,473	138,701
28	139,939	142,223	144,544	146,903	149,300	151,738	154,215	156,731
29	158,131	160,712	163,335	166,001	168,710	171,464	174,262	177,107
30	178,688	181,604	184,568	187,581	190,642	193,754	196,916	200,130
31	262,965	268,101	273,338	278,676	284,120	289,669	295,327	301,095
32	313,512	319,835	326,285	332,865	339,577	346,426	353,413	360,539
33	395,858	407,734

Gov’t Nurses new entry-level is SG-15

Filipino nurses will finally receive a much-deserved salary increase at a time when frontliners like them work diligently to help address the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

This is after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) finally decided to implement Section 32 of the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173), which set a minimum base pay of SG-15 for nurses working in public institutions and government hospitals.

Although DBM Circular 2020-4 was released in July 2020, the DBM memo stated that the salary adjustment for nurses will be retroactive to January 1, 2020. This means government nurses will be receiving salary differentials as if they already have the new SG salaries beginning January 1, 2020.

The salary increase is for all public health nurses in the Philippines — regardless if regular, casual or contractual, full-time or part-time — working in national government agencies, including state universities and colleges and state corporations, as well as local government units (LGUs) covered by the Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS) under Republic Act (RA) No. 6758 or the Compensation and Position Classification Act of 1989.

What’s the new starting salary for government nurses?

Entry-level nurses (Nurse 1), originally ranked Salary Grade (SG) 11, will now have a base salary grade of SG 15.

Nurse I (SG 15) will receive a salary of P32,053.00 per month, an increase from the previous SG 11 salary of P22,316.00 per month.

In 2021, SG 15 nurses will have a pay hike to P33,575.00 per month.

Nurse II, meanwhile, will now get a base rank of SG 17 receiving salary of P38,464.00 per month in 2020 which will then increase to P39,986.00 per month in 2021.

Nurse III are now ranked SG 19 (from SG 17); Nurse IV are now SG 20 (from SG 19); Nurse V will now get a salary grade rank of SG 22 (from SG 20); and finally, Nurse VI are now SG 24 (from SG 22).

Monthly Salary of Government Nurses in the Philippines

Here’s the new salary grades (SG) of government nurses and their corresponding salary increases beginning this year 2021.

New Monthly Salary of Government Nurses in 2021

	Salary Grade (SG)	New Monthly Salary in 2021
Nurse 1	SG 15	P33,575.00
Nurse 2	SG 17	P39,986.00
Nurse 3	SG 19	P48,313.00
Nurse 4	SG 20	P54,251.00
Nurse 5	SG 22	P68,415.00
Nurse 6	SG 24	P86,742.00

Take note that government nurses are still included and entitled to receive the automatic salary adjustment every year from 2021 to 2023 under the new SSL tables above.

This means for years 2021 to 2023, here’s the new monthly salary of government nurses under the new SSL tables, assuming the SG levels of nurses still correspond to their rank (that is, Nurse 1 is still SG 15, Nurse 2 is SG 17, etc.).

New Monthly Salary of Government Nurses in 2022

	Salary Grade (SG)	New Monthly Salary in 2022
Nurse 1	SG 15	P35,097.00
Nurse 2	SG 17	P41,508.00
Nurse 3	SG 19	P49,835.00
Nurse 4	SG 20	P55,799.00
Nurse 5	SG 22	P69,963.00
Nurse 6	SG 24	P88,410.00

New Monthly Salary of Government Nurses in 2023

	Salary Grade (SG)	New Monthly Salary in 2023
Nurse 1	SG 15	P36,619.00
Nurse 2	SG 17	P43,030.00
Nurse 3	SG 19	P51,357.00
Nurse 4	SG 20	P57,347.00
Nurse 5	SG 22	P71,511.00
Nurse 6	SG 24	P90,078.00

New SG Table & Monthly Salary of Nurses in 2020

	Starting Salary Grade (SG) in 2020	New Monthly Salary in 2020
Nurse 1	SG 15	P32,053.00
Nurse 2	SG 17	P38,464.00
Nurse 3	SG 19	P46,791.00
Nurse 4	SG 20	P52,703.00
Nurse 5	SG 22	P66,867.00
Nurse 6	SG 24	P85,074.00

With the new SSL tables beginning 2020, all government employees — but excluding armed and military personnel below who already received separate salary increases — certainly benefited and will continue to benefit from automatic salary bumps until 2023.

Teachers teaching in public educational schools in the country, however, are still stuck in their existing Salary Grades (SG) and given the low SG ranks, these teachers continue to be paid deplorably low salaries. Take a look at the monthly salaries of some public school teachers in the Philippines.

Monthly Salary of Public School Teachers in 2021

	Salary Grade (SG)	Monthly Salary in 2021
Teacher 1	SG 11	P23,877.00
Teacher 2	SG 12	P26,052.00
Teacher 3	SG 13	P28,276.00
Master Teacher 1	SG 18	P43,681.00
Master Teacher 2	SG 19	P48,313.00
Master Teacher 3	SG 20	P54,251.00
Master Teacher 4	SG 21	P60,901.00

The Salary Standardization Law prescribes the salary increase for “all civilian government personnel in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches, Constitutional Commissions and other Constitutional Offices, Government-owned or Controlled Corporations (GOCCs) not covered by Republic Act (R.A.) No. 10149, and local government units (LGUs)”

All government personnel — regardless if regular, contractual or casual, appointive or elective, and on full-time or part-time contract — are covered by the law.

Payment for employees engaged on a part-time basis shall receive compensation proportionate to the actual services rendered. Casual personnel, meanwhile, shall receive daily wage which shall be computed by dividing the applicable monthly salary rate by twenty-two (22) working days.

However, the following employees are excluded from the law and shall receive salaries based on separate laws applicable to their compensation:

(a) Military and uniformed personnel;
(b) GOCCs under R.A. No. 10149 which shall be covered by a Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS) established by the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) and approved by the President of the Philippines; and
(c) Individuals whose services are engaged through job orders, contracts of service, consultancy or service contracts with no employer-employee relationship.

Continuation of PNoy’s SSL 1 which started in 2016

Upon full implementation in 2023, basic salaries would have increased by a weighted average of 23.24%.

Employees ranked from Salary Grade (SG) 1 to 10 will receive a salary increase from 17.5% to 20.5% from 2020 until 2023.

Those ranked SG 11 to 15 will receive the highest increase, with their salaries growing by 20% to 30% over four years.

Meanwhile, those with higher ranks, specifically from SG 25 to 33, were allocated the lowest salary percentage increase at just 8%.

By signing the law, Pres. Duterte continued the annual salary increase for government workers initiated by former Pres. Noynoy Aquino, which started with SSL 1 in 2016 ending with SSL 4 in 2019.

2 thoughts on “SSL 2021 Table | Salary Increase for Teachers, Nurses, Gov’t Employees”

Sehaj
March 26, 2020 at 5:36 pm

Nurses are working more than 15 hours daily or more than doctors so their salary must be increased

Phcorner
July 29, 2020 at 4:09 am

Must increase salary for Nurses. Good bless

SSL 2021 Table | Salary Increase for Teachers, Nurses, Gov’t Employees