Offshore assistant and Philippines workforce statistics
Citable facts about the Philippine outsourcing workforce and US administrative labor costs. Every number links to its public source.
How large is the Philippine outsourcing workforce?
The Philippine IT and business process management industry employed about 1.89 million full-time-equivalent workers in 2025 and earned about US$40.3 billion in revenue, according to the industry association IBPAP. English is an official language, and Philippine Standard Time is UTC+8 with no daylight saving time.
Philippines statistics
1.89 million
Full-time-equivalent workers in the Philippine IT and business process management (IT-BPM) industry in 2025, up from 1.82 million in 2024.
Source: IBPAP Industry Overview · as of 2025
US$40.3 billion
Philippine IT-BPM revenue in 2025, up from US$38.0 billion in 2024 (about 5% growth, reported by The Philippine Star, Jan 29, 2026).
Source: IBPAP Industry Overview · as of 2025
UTC+8, no DST
Philippine Standard Time is eight hours ahead of UTC and does not observe daylight saving time, so the gap to US Eastern time is 12 hours in US summer and 13 hours in US winter.
Source: timeanddate.com · as of current
English is an official language
Article XIV, Section 7 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution names Filipino and English as the official languages for communication and instruction.
Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines · as of 1987
Data Privacy Act of 2012
Republic Act No. 10173 governs personal data processing in the Philippines and is administered by the National Privacy Commission.
Source: National Privacy Commission · as of 2012
112,729,484
Population of the Philippines as of July 1, 2024, from the 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN), declared official by Proclamation No. 973 (July 2025). The 2020 census counted 109,035,343.
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority · as of 2024
US labor costs statistics
$48,310
US median annual wage for secretaries and administrative assistants, May 2025.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook · as of May 2025
$76,590
US median annual wage for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, May 2025.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook · as of May 2025
$50,670
US median annual pay for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks, 2025.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook · as of 2025
29.8%
Share of total employer compensation costs that went to benefits for US private industry workers in June 2025 (US$13.58 of US$45.65 per hour worked).
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation · as of June 2025
-2%
Projected change in US employment of secretaries and administrative assistants from 2025 to 2035, with about 314,400 openings a year from replacement needs.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook · as of 2025–35
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