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Peso payroll
Peso payroll is paying the worker in Philippine pesos through a local employer file, which is how statutory remittances even work.
How it works
SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and tax withholding are peso instruments. A Wise USD tip is not payroll. Quote dollars if you must, pay pesos, document the FX rule. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.
Example: basic ₱70,000 wired to a PH bank on the 15th and 30th, remittances filed by the EOR. Not $1,200 on PayPal.
How it differs
USD offer vs PHP payroll is the quote problem. FX cushion is the buffer. Pay cycle is the timing.
Common errors
Paying USD cash and asking them to ‘handle their own SSS.’
In practice
Treat Peso payroll as a week-one operating object. Put a peso or dollar figure on the next twelve months. If the word cannot survive that arithmetic, it is marketing. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have peso payroll yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.