Editing Provinces of the Philippines (section)

=== Classification {{anchor|Income classification}} ===
[[File:Philippine provinces by income classification.svg|thumb|170px|Provinces based on income classification.]]
Provinces are classified according to average annual income based on the previous 4 calendar years. Effective July 29, 2008, the thresholds for the income classes for cities are:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Department Order No. 23-08 Prescribing the New Income Brackets for the Re-classification of Provinces, Cities and Municipalities and Amending for the Purpose Department of Finance Order No. 20-05, dated July 29, 2005. |date=July 29, 2008 |first=Margarito B. |last=Teves |url=http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/articles/DepOrderReclass.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083823/http://nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/articles/DepOrderReclass.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=September 29, 2014}}</ref>{{update inline|date=March 2018}}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" 
|-
! scope="col" | Class
! scope="col" | Average annual income
|-
! scope="row" | First
| [[Philippine peso|₱]]450&nbsp;million or more
|-
! scope="row" | Second
| ₱360&nbsp;million or more but less than ₱450&nbsp;million
|-
! scope="row" | Third
| ₱270&nbsp;million or more but less than ₱360&nbsp;million
|-
! scope="row" | Fourth
| ₱180&nbsp;million or more but less than ₱270&nbsp;million
|-
! scope="row" | Fifth
| ₱90&nbsp;million or more but less than ₱180&nbsp;million
|-
! scope="row" | Sixth
| below ₱90&nbsp;million
|}
A province's income class determines the size of the membership of its [[Sangguniang Panlalawigan]], and also how much it can spend on certain items, or procure through certain means.<ref name="LGC" />