Major groups
10 broad occupation aggregates.
2022 Updates to the 2012 PSOC
PSOC Code Lookup — Philippine Standard Occupational Classification
PSIC classifies industries. PSOC classifies occupations. Use this companion layer when the task is about a person's job, workforce role, hiring record, labor statistic or reporting workflow rather than the business activity itself.
Смежные классификаторы
Используйте их как отдельные входы, когда нужен не occupational, а industry, commodity или geography axis.
Industry PSIC
PSIC
Industry classification for business activity, registration and reporting.
Start from the main PSIC home. Commodity PSCC
PSCC
Commodity classification for goods, tariffs and trade-oriented lookup.
Entry point for section, chapter and line browsing. Geography PSGC
PSGC
Geographic classification for region, province, city, municipality and barangay lookup.
Entry point for the full location chain.Major groups
PSOC is organized into 10 major groups that move from military work through managerial, professional, service and elementary occupations.
Major group 0
Armed forces occupations
Military and armed-services roles form the top PSOC major group for occupations that are not civilian labor-market jobs in the ordinary sense.
Use this major group when the real role is held under military discipline or active service in the armed forces rather than a comparable civilian title. Major group 1
Managers
Managers plan, direct and evaluate the overall activities of enterprises, government units and other organizations.
Use this group for people whose main work is directing operations, setting policy, managing budgets and approving resources. Major group 2
Professionals
Professionals apply advanced knowledge in science, engineering, health, law, education and other specialist fields.
Use this group for analytically trained roles that normally require university-level expertise or equivalent professional specialization. Major group 3
Technicians and associate professionals
Technicians and associate professionals perform technical and specialized support work in science, health, engineering, administration and creative fields.
Use this group when the role supports professional work with practical technical skills, controlled procedures and specialized operational knowledge. Major group 4
Clerical support workers
Clerical support workers handle office administration, records, bookkeeping, customer transactions and routine support processes.
Use this group for office-based administrative jobs where the core work is handling information, documents, counters or routine financial records. Major group 5
Service and sales workers
Service and sales workers provide personal services, protect people and property, and sell goods or services directly to clients and customers.
Use this group for frontline service jobs in hospitality, care, security, retail, food service and direct selling. Major group 6
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
This group covers skilled work in crop production, animal raising, forestry, aquaculture and other primary production activities.
Use this group for jobs centered on farming, forestry, fishing, nursery work and other skilled primary-sector occupations. Major group 7
Craft and related trades workers
Craft and related trades workers build, repair, process and fit materials, equipment and products using skilled manual work.
Use this group for construction, metalwork, mechanics, electrical trades, food processing, textiles and similar skilled craft occupations. Major group 8
Plant and machine operators, and assemblers
Plant and machine operators and assemblers run machinery, monitor equipment, drive vehicles and assemble products to specification.
Use this group for jobs where the dominant task is operating, monitoring or assembling with machinery rather than doing the work manually from start to finish. Major group 9
Elementary occupations
Elementary occupations are routine, simple-task jobs that generally require limited formal training and focus on basic physical or service work.
Use this group for entry-level or routine jobs in cleaning, delivery, helpers, street services, basic farming and simple manual tasks.Browse the full chain
Use the full PSOC ladder when you need the exact occupation level instead of stopping at the major group.
Structure snapshot
The PSA API documentation exposes the working PSOC ladder used for official retrieval.
Sub-major groups
43 second-level occupation aggregates.
Minor groups
130 third-level occupation aggregates.
Unit groups
456 the most specific public PSOC layer described in the API docs.
Practical help
These pages are meant to reduce misclassification before a filing or reporting workflow gets too far downstream.
Common mistakes
The fastest way to go wrong is to classify the employer's industry instead of the worker's occupation.
Read mistakes guideSources
Source links, workbook note and API references in one place.
Open sourcesAPI documentation
Use the official PSA API guide when you need the versioned retrieval pattern or endpoint shape.
Open API docs