A public transparency project · Filings 2004 → today
How wealthy are the people who run the Philippines?
Every public official files a SALN — a Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth — every year. We dug through 22 years of public records and news reports, pulled out every figure we could verify, and linked each one to its source.
What is a SALN, in plain words?
Officials file it every year
Every president, senator, judge and government employee must declare their wealth each year — by April 30, covering the year before.
It lists everything
Real estate, bank accounts, vehicles, businesses, loans, debts — and the bottom line: net worth (assets minus liabilities).
It's supposed to be public
Under the Code of Conduct (RA 6713) it's a public document. But access was restricted from Sept 2020, and only reopened Oct 14, 2025.
That restriction is why some years are missing here. Where a filing was never made public, we say so — we never guess.
The five things that jump out
See it, don't just read it
Five charts. Each one answers one question.
1 · Who are the richest senators right now?
Net worth declared in the Oct 2025 Senate release (all 24 senators; holdovers as of Dec 31 2024, new senators as of Jun 30 2025).
2 · One family, one throne
A Villar has been the richest senator every year with public data from 2008 to 2020 — Manuel first, then Cynthia. No public figures exist for 2009–2012.
3 · The appraisal gap
Pres. Marcos Jr. declared P475.9M in his 2024 & 2025 SALNs. Independent appraisers valued the family's wealth ~3× higher.
4 · The P6.77 billion question
VP Sara Duterte declared no cash or deposits in any SALN from 2019 to 2024 — while anti-money-laundering reports flagged P6.77B in bank flows.
2019–2024
by AMLC
5 · The zero-debt club
6 of 24 senators declared zero liabilities — no loans, no mortgages, no debt at all. That's 1 in 4.
Watch wealth grow — or not
Pick up to 3 officials. Each line is set to 100 at that official's first year, so the comparison is fair.
Year by year — how it moved
Change in declared net worth, compared with the growth of the Philippine economy that same year (real GDP growth, World Bank).
| Year | Net worth (PHP) | Change (PHP) | Change (%) | PH GDP growth (%) |
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🗳 marks an election year. The change shown in the row right after an election year is how their wealth moved following that election.
Salaries are approximate basic monthly rates as widely reported (SSL V / RA 11466) × 12; excludes allowances and 13th month. Verify with DBM.
Why is some data missing?
SALNs are public documents, but access has not always been easy:
- 2021–2023 senator filings are largely not public — the Senate halted full SALN distribution (2019 policy) and the Ombudsman restricted access from Sept 2020.
- That restriction was only lifted on Oct 14, 2025 — which is why 2024+ data suddenly became public.
- Officials with only one year here either served just one term, or their other filings were never made public.
- Some 2026 senator filings exist but had no public coverage at the time of compiling.
SALN figures are self-declared, and the available years differ per official — gaps are years with no public filing. Economy line: World Bank, GDP per capita, constant 2015 US$ (indexed to the earliest selected year). This is a rough gauge of relative growth, not a forensic finding.
Interesting tables
Computed from the dataset — officials with at least two public filings.
Biggest wealth jumps — in pesos
| Official | First year | Last year | Change (PHP) | Change (%) |
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Biggest wealth jumps — in %
| Official | First year | Last year | Change (%) | Change (PHP) |
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Richest declared net worths ever
| Official | Peak year | Peak (PHP) | Change (%) |
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Fastest average annual growth (CAGR)
| Official | First year | Last year | Avg / yr | Change (PHP) |
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Growth within a single 6-year term
| Official | Term | Start (PHP) | End (PHP) | Change (%) | Change (PHP) | PH GDP (%) |
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First → last public filing shown. Officials with only one filing are excluded.
Browse the data
Every row is tied to a public source. Filter by name, switch between tables.
| Name | Year / Period | Net worth | Assets | Liabilities | Source |
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Method & honesty notes
What we did
- Compiled every publicly reported SALN figure for presidents, vice presidents and senators, filings 2004–2026.
- Used only figures seen verbatim in cited sources: Rappler, GMA, Inquirer, Philstar, ABS-CBN, PCIJ, Manila Bulletin, PNA, Senate records.
- Where two outlets disagree, both figures are shown (see the senators file).
- Oct 2025 release source: GMA News, Oct 29 2025 — “All 24 senators finish releasing SALNs”. GDP: World Bank.
What's missing (and why)
- 2021–2023 senator filings: not public — Senate policy (2019) + Ombudsman restriction (Sept 2020) until Oct 14, 2025.
- Arroyo & Noli de Castro presidential years: never published in the outlets we can reach.
- 2024-cycle senator SALNs were suppressed; the Oct 2025 release is the first full public table.
- Some 2026 senator filings exist but had no public coverage — yet.
Read this first
- A SALN is self-declared — it's what the official says they own, not a full audit.
- “Not found in public sources” ≠ “nothing”. The filing may exist but was never made public.
- Appraised values (Marcos) come from independent appraisers the Palace commissioned.
- This is a civic tool, not legal advice. Verify with primary sources before relying on a figure.