MANILA, Philippines — Government workers will begin receiving their mid-year bonus starting Thursday, according to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
According to Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, the total budget for the grant of the 2025 mid-year bonus for qualified civilian, military, and uniformed personnel is P63.695 billion.
Of this amount, P47.587 billion will be for civilian personnel, while P16.108 billion is reserved for military and uniformed personnel.
“Ang pondo po para sa mid-year bonus ay komprehensibo na pong nai-release ng DBM sa mga implementing agencies noong pang January 2025, kaya naman magalang po tayong nanawagan sa ating mga kasamahan at pinuno ng mga ahensya ng gobyerno at LGUs na sana po ay maibigay na ang mid-year bonus sa kani-kanilang empleyado sa lalong madaling panahon,” Pangandaman said in a statement.
(The funds for the mid-year bonus have been comprehensively released by the DBM to the implementing agencies in January 2025, which is why we respectfully call on our colleagues and heads of government agencies and LGUs [local government units] to hopefully give the mid-year bonus to their respective employees as soon as possible.)
Under DBM Budget Circular No. 2017-2, the mid-year bonus shall be given to personnel who have rendered at least a total or an aggregate of four months of service from July 1 of the immediately preceding year to May 15 of the current year.
The personnel shall also have obtained at least a satisfactory performance rating in the immediately preceding rating period or the applicable performance appraisal period.
It applies to all positions for civilian personnel, whether regular, casual, or contractual, appointive or elective, full-time or part-time, now existing or hereafter created in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, the Constitutional Commissions and other Constitutional Offices, State Universities and Colleges, and Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations covered by the Compensation and Position Classification System, and in local government units.