IT, engineers, healthcare professionals are top earners
Engineers, healthcare, and IT professionals were the highest-paying specializations in 2017, according to a report by jobs portal WorkAbroad.Ph
The report released Wednesday showed US-based ship masters potentially earned P99,000 a month, while chief engineers brought in P96,000 and chief officers collected P92,000.
Land-based engineers netted a cool P57,000 in the Middle East and P59,000 in Asia-Pacific where they are in demand.
Pediatricians in the Middle East were paid as much as P86,000 a month, nurses at least P65,000, and veterinarians P58,000.
IT professionals with zero to four years of experience were compensated as much as P54,000 per month in the Asia-Pacific region.
In the US and the Middle East, the most in-demand specializations were engineering-related professions, general work, and food, beverage and restaurant service.
Engineering-related jobs were also highly in-demand in the Asia-Pacific region, followed by general work and manufacturing and production operations.
Skilled workers
Skilled workers remain most in-demand overseas while engineers are on top of the professional category.
In the Middle East, numerous openings can be found for drivers and electricians, as well as auto, plumbing, refrigeration, maintenance, and air-conditioning technicians. They were also many hiring notices for cooks, waiters and waitresses, baristas, mechanics, and electrical technicians.
In the Asia-Pacific, jobs also await welders, carpenters, caretakers, technicians, factory workers, technical operators, household service workers, and production and machine operators.
Sea-based engineers can earn top dollars in the US, were cooks, fitters, stewards electricians, able seamen, and waiters and waitresses are also needed.
Top 10 deployment destinations
Topping WorkAbroad.Ph’s list of destination countries for OFWs were six Middle Eastern countries:
The report released Wednesday showed US-based ship masters potentially earned P99,000 a month, while chief engineers brought in P96,000 and chief officers collected P92,000.
Land-based engineers netted a cool P57,000 in the Middle East and P59,000 in Asia-Pacific where they are in demand.
Pediatricians in the Middle East were paid as much as P86,000 a month, nurses at least P65,000, and veterinarians P58,000.
IT professionals with zero to four years of experience were compensated as much as P54,000 per month in the Asia-Pacific region.
In the US and the Middle East, the most in-demand specializations were engineering-related professions, general work, and food, beverage and restaurant service.
Engineering-related jobs were also highly in-demand in the Asia-Pacific region, followed by general work and manufacturing and production operations.
Skilled workers
Skilled workers remain most in-demand overseas while engineers are on top of the professional category.
In the Middle East, numerous openings can be found for drivers and electricians, as well as auto, plumbing, refrigeration, maintenance, and air-conditioning technicians. They were also many hiring notices for cooks, waiters and waitresses, baristas, mechanics, and electrical technicians.
In the Asia-Pacific, jobs also await welders, carpenters, caretakers, technicians, factory workers, technical operators, household service workers, and production and machine operators.
Sea-based engineers can earn top dollars in the US, were cooks, fitters, stewards electricians, able seamen, and waiters and waitresses are also needed.
Top 10 deployment destinations
Topping WorkAbroad.Ph’s list of destination countries for OFWs were six Middle Eastern countries:
- Saudi Arabia—61,534 of the total job advertisements on the website
- Qatar—16,083
- United Arab Emirates—7,231
- Kuwait—5,310
- Bahrain—3,725
- Oman—3,661
Completing the top 10 overseas job destinations were:
- Malaysia—1,994
- Taiwan—861
- United States—3,017
- New Zealand—1,190
Tech-voc education
As skilled workers are in-demand, WorkAbroad.Ph advises OFWs to take skills-based courses from technical-vocational institutions.
Jobseekers are also urged to earn the necessary work experience before applying as most openings on the site usually require experience.
Applicants must also be work-abroad ready or familiarize themselves with their country of destination.
According to the 2016 Survey on Overseas Filipinos by the Philippine Statistics Authority, there were an estimated 2.2 million OFWs abroad.
The number of OFWs are expected to grow as Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand open up jobs to Filipinos, and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign landmark agreements to strengthen migrants’ rights.
Remittances by overseas Filipinos continued to climb in 2017, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Personal remittances, or transfers in cash and in kind—were up 3.2 percent at $2.526 billion as of end-November from $2.448 billion a year earlier.
Cash remittances increased by 5.1 percent to $2.262 billion from the $2.217 billion in the same comparable period. — VDS, GMA News
As skilled workers are in-demand, WorkAbroad.Ph advises OFWs to take skills-based courses from technical-vocational institutions.
Jobseekers are also urged to earn the necessary work experience before applying as most openings on the site usually require experience.
Applicants must also be work-abroad ready or familiarize themselves with their country of destination.
According to the 2016 Survey on Overseas Filipinos by the Philippine Statistics Authority, there were an estimated 2.2 million OFWs abroad.
The number of OFWs are expected to grow as Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand open up jobs to Filipinos, and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign landmark agreements to strengthen migrants’ rights.
Remittances by overseas Filipinos continued to climb in 2017, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Personal remittances, or transfers in cash and in kind—were up 3.2 percent at $2.526 billion as of end-November from $2.448 billion a year earlier.
Cash remittances increased by 5.1 percent to $2.262 billion from the $2.217 billion in the same comparable period. — VDS, GMA News
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