Was just wondering what is the industry salary rate for my career, and realise that i can really find a reference, as our country's labour law / union are not strong. the Law / Union mainly to protect the blue colar low earners.

so wonder what is the salary you guys earning. Is it at par with the industry, better or getting squeze by the boss.

we dont have to go into exact figure, but a general +- RM200 or rm300 will be the guide. The objective is to know the industry rate, so we as workers can demand more in the future!!!!

Maybe you guys can respond to the following :

Job Title :
Job Desciption :
Company : Good if got name, else just put MNC, Listed, Non Listed, small shop
Industry :
Tenur : permanent or contract
Employment Level : clerk, junior exec, senior exec, asst manager, manager
Experience before joining : any workign experience (years and industry relavance)
salary : RM ????


for myself,

Senior MIS exec
IT related
MNC Bank
Banking
contract
senior exec
2 1/2 year with MSC status Co and Listed Co
3000+-

You forgot "Years spent with company"

Job Title : Video Butcher
Job Desciption : Video Editing
Years spent in company : 3+
Company : Local post house
Industry : Media / Communications
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : not sure. exec i guess since i'm dept. head.
Experience before joining : freelance / internship with same co. (1 1/2 yrs)
salary : RM 3k+

Oh and before anyone mentions theres another thread doing the same thing let me point out that that one was only IT specific. I'm curious about the rest of the industry i.e. Media, Advertising, Telecommunications, Banking, Education etc...

wah how come suddenly so many threads asking bout salary =.=

January mah. Some companies give bonus this month instead of last month. don't want to start the year feeling shortchanged.

Besides, when you go for job interviews they usually ask you about expected salary. So at least if we have a database of salary ranges to consult from, you can know what to ask for and not look like an idiot if you say ask for a RM4000 salary as despatch rider (just an example lah) The interviewer will know you did some homework and that shows initiative on your part. Helps make you look good.

edit : typo

This post has been edited by Muffins: Jan 12 2005, 07:51 PM

Job Title : Snr Project Engineer
Job Desciption : Engineering n Commisioning
Company : Non Listed
Industry : Oil & Gas / Water Treatment
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : senior exec
Experience before joining : 3 yrs +
salary : RM 3k++ plus allowance RM3k++ (on site)

Job Title : Management Trainee
Job Desciption : Any function -> currently Systems implementation
Years in Company : 6 months
Company : MNC
Industry : Banking
Tenur : Permanent
Employment Level : Junior exec
Experience before joining : 0
salary : RM 3k (no allowance )

management trainee exp 6mths salary RM3k?
u kiddin me rite?

maybe working with his father leh

Job Title : Sommelier Captain
Job Desciption : Ensuring Satisfaction & Quality In Food & Beverage Service
Company : Daisho
Industry : Food & Beverage
Tenur : Permanent
Employment Level : Junior Supervisory
Experience before joining : 2 Years
Salary : RM 1.7K ++

I would like to noe, how does a typical day of a Mangaemetn trainee like? What to they do actually?

I'm not kidding. And I don't work for my dad. Actually there are jobs out there that earns more than me for freshies too. Just gotta look hard enough.

Well, actually, Mgmt Trainees in most companies go on rotation basis from dept to dept and are given job functions within the depts so they can learn how the whole operations work. These attachments usually last a few months.

This depends on how a company wants to handle them though. For me, I'm put into a full role within my current dept and will go on for 6-9 months. In fact, I might not even rotate and stay put.

Those jobs saying mgmt trainee but give you sales job or "dog's" job that no one else want to do, that's NOT mgmt trainee, just trainee.

This post has been edited by johnnyxt: Jan 13 2005, 06:11 AM

johnnyxt : seriouslly which company you working for.
seems like your profile sounds the most "interesting"

you trying to tell us you got NO working experience, nothing at all, and you came out of college/uni and get a 3k+ job?

you had Master degree or Bachelor? and in what field, from which uni

wow johnnyxt great pay
i work in a bank too but getting something just over 2k and im same like you freshie

Hahaha. No...fresh grad with Bachelor's degree. Local private uni. Foreign bank not many only what. (hmm...deja vu). Oh yeah...I actually posted this before in another thread.

hehehe.... u must be one lucky guy
i got many friends in the industry.
i my self in a bank.

my friend who has 8 years experience in maybank public bank citibank shoot me down when i told him your salary.

he says "no banks so stupid to pay 3k for Management trainee with fresh grad, no experience and permanenet"

i also ask my uncle, who is a senior hr manager in a foreign bank, he too shoot me down.

i know HSBC never offers permanenet, and banking industry salary is controlled by the Association of Banks Malayasia and Bank Negara.

so which bank you working for. DAMMM i wan tto know which bank youworking for, then i can go bang my hr manager;s table.

maybe Bank Negara...

Haha..good one, i'd like to know as well...

BTW, I got a fren working in Philips Morris as management trainee and getting pay rm3.5k Not sure what he's doing, probably a smokers ?

Degree from UM. Unbelieveable? That's what he told me.....

Job Title : Application Engineer
Job Desciption : Engineering n Commisioning
Job Responsibilities : Project, application, training, indoor support, field site service, qoutation....(one leg kicking)
Company : Non Listed
Industry : Oil & Gas / General Industries
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : exec
Experience before joining : 0
Duration with current company: 3 years
salary : RM 2k plus small allowance

Beware: My salary is consider super under paid, anyone in this or related field try to offer such salary means squeezing ur balls! It should be somewhere Lunix getting or at least rm2.5k

This post has been edited by ckchew666: Jan 13 2005, 09:56 AM

Job Title : Sales Support Engineer
Job Desciption : as above
Years spent in company : 3+
Company : Foreign company
Industry : Communications
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : dunno. macai probably.
Experience before joining : 4yrs+ with same job function with our competitor. Was hired by headhunter.
salary : RM 6k+

Try to squeeze ur boss's ball lah. Or ready to jump ship after the bonus.

MNCs with very structured Mgmt Trainee programs in a sense HAS to pay a high salary from the start. This is cos you probably won't get promoted or have any increments within the tenure of the program, which could last up to 2 years.

And Utopia, you don't need to know which bank i'm working for. (Hint: I've actually mentioned before in another thread, try finding it). Rest assured I'm not lying. So go and bang your HR manager's desk anyway. )

I believe this thread should be pinned for reference, I think jobstreet has the same salary reference database, but we need to pay money in order to retrive their database Perhaps we should starts ours for FOC

i wish one day i will be headhunted!

got a friend who works with a bigger company, then he move to a smaller competitor. all of us laughing at him, say he stupid change to small company.

then he said, head hunters came tohim, offer him manager post, 35% more. so he jump straight away.

Job Title : Technical specialist
Job Desciption : Automated Testing Equipment Programmer
Years spent in company : 1year +
Company : Motorola
Industry : Communications
Tenure : Contract
Employment Level : Dunno... Does "E-04" makes any sense?
Experience before joining : Odd Jobs in PC shops, 3 months in Small Local PC Company.
salary : RM 1.5k

Sometimes, Smaller Company are nicer to work in... Less activities and benefit maybe but a lot more life and opportunity to grow.

good idea... i sokong u.....

ok, I pinned it.

Job Title : Legal Data Maintenance Exec
Job Desciption & Responsibilities: Data Maintenance, Issue standard Agreement, admin...etc (Cover Mountain Cover Sea)
Company : Taiwanese Company
Industry : Manufacturing
Tenur : Permanent
Employment Level : exec
Experience before joining : 0 (Wash plate count???)
Duration with current company: 1yr+
Education Lvl: Degree
salary : RM 1.8k plus allowance

i second that, someone start a new website and put in the relevant details such as those i suggested, company, industry, job title etc.

and we get everyone to fill up and we have our own free salary reference database.

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This post has been edited by achw: Mar 24 2006, 12:55 AM

ya is suppose u put it that way then is fair. some jobs has lower promotion or career advance path. so they balance in salary.
some others is balance by commission allowences and year end bonus.

johny : if thats the case i wont bang the table. im actually happy with what im getting. but i wont be 1 year down the road. hahaha
every year must increase 20% or more else the boss suck!

Job Title : System Administrator
Job Desciption & Responsibilities: Servers,
Company : Well known Malaysian company
Industry : Financial Services
Tenur : Permanent
Employment Level : exec
Experience before joining : 1
Duration with current company: 4yr+
Education Lvl: Adv Dip
salary : around RM 2K plus allowance

eehh aint you guys afraid that your boss might be 1 of the lowyat forum member as well...hehe

that's the reason why company name not given by me... otherwise...

Nothing to affraid off, our salary& company is not illegal, we work our way out man!!

I'm not putting my comp name, jst not to spoilt it, if it's paying me 5k per month I'm gladly to put here, so others can look forward for it btw, if anyone interested to know more related to my field can always PM me

ckchew666 : you should look into company like scomi. they might be able to give u more like 3 - 4k.

1 thing in life which sometimes i think it is pretty funny ... we would do whatever it takes to earn money ... eventhought u r lazy to perform some certain task ... that stuff called money will kick ur ass to do it. *Sigh*

utopia: I'm more to control & instrument side, like PLC, flow computer, field instruments for oil & gas applications

Job Title : Technical Quality Assurance (bukan jual insurans arr... )
Job Desciption : Multipurpose Executive
Job Responsibilities : courseware checking
Company : Non Listed
Industry : Courseware
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : exec
Experience before joining : NIL
Duration with current company: 2 years
salary : RM 2-2.9K (+/-) depends on OT

Job Title : Senior Graphic Designer / Publishing Coordinator
Job Responsibilities : Responsible in everything to do with inhouse design/layout/promotional materials/coordinating other staff's workload etc
Company : Private
Industry : Publication
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : Dunno.. shld be executive
Experience before joining : NIL
Duration with current company: 3 years
salary : above RM 2000, below RM2500

i'm still waiting for headhunter to offer me post of managerial
as if it will come

Job Title : not sure
Job Responsibilities : Prepare and submit tender, Drafting, Supervise work at site, attend meetings, correspondence, answering phone, etc. (almost 1 leg kicking)
Company : Private
Industry : Engineering, Construction
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : Dunno..
Experience before joining : 5yrs
Duration with current company: 3 months
Salary : RM 2750

I'm sure i can get a better salary in KL but in Miri, i wonder if im underpaid or overpaid.

Any feedback from fellow Sarawakian?

Job Title : Management Trainee
Job Responsibilities : Merchandising Exec - planning, managing, coordinating counters
Company : MNC
Industry : Cosmetic
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : Fresh Grad
Duration with current company: 7 months
Education background : Bachelor of IT in MMU
Salary : RM 3K

This post has been edited by pickles: Jan 13 2005, 11:51 PM

-edited-

This post has been edited by AMDs-PoOp: Feb 7 2005, 01:45 AM

Citibank perhaps? I know they pay very very very well.Have to include commisions of course. In fact, 5 times more than yours.

Commission don't say lah. But that applies to Credit card & mortgage sales ppl. Basic is not that high, just normal....but if you can really pull off the sales....
Quite hard in the saturated market now. Don't like Citibank too, their reputation worldwide is bad, too aggressive until quite unethical.

Job Title : Tech Support
Job Responsibilities : System Administrator
Company : MNC
Industry : IT
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : Junior executive
Experience before joining : 1+ yrs
Duration with current company: 6 months
Salary : RM 2k++

Jst to ask, wonder why many ppl rather wait for headdunter than go out and interview for new/better job? I guess if you ask around your frens you should be able to get a few offer coming in if you have 3 yrs experience....(at least in my field - Industrial Automation)

My personal thinking: I feel like you are abit underpaid, since you are already 3 yrs with ur current company and bearing a title senior graphic designer, i think rm2.5k - rm2.8k will be more justify. Why not try looking out? As chinese ppl always say, "a fish that stay in the same pond too long will not get fat" Good luck....orh...BTW, I'm looking out also...wish me luck

This post has been edited by ckchew666: Jan 14 2005, 09:46 AM

Job Title : Testing
Job Responsibilities : Testing
Company : MNC
Industry : IT
Tenur : Contract (6 mths)
Employment Level : dunno
Experience before joining : 2yrs
Duration with current company: 3 months
Salary : RM 4.5K (no frills, no medical claims etc)

i did try other job actually
but for my age, i'm too young to be what i wanted to be.
so the reason i'm staying is so that i can have even more experience to do what i wanted to, few years later.
i quite agree that i'm in underpaid, but my situation here is, i don't have a degree nor diploma in graphic. It's only experience.

Job Title : Corporate Account Exec
Job Responsibilities : Sales
Company : Local Computer manufacturer
Industry : IT
Tenur : Permanent
Employment Level : dunno
Experience before joining : 3yrs
Duration with current company: 11 months
Salary : RM 2150 basic, 450 petrol, 150 max claims, commision structure.

In March I'll start with a new company
Job Title : Sales Manager, Corporate Division
Job Responsibilities : Sales for corporate & projects, tender
Company : Local Bumi Computer company
Industry : IT
Tenur : Permanent
Employment Level : Management
Experience before joining : 3yrs plus
Duration with current company:
Salary : RM 2600 basic, unlimited claims (parking, toll, meal, petrol, lodging, handphone), profit sharing, quarterly management bonus, annual bonus.

WTA, U guys can get bonus if less than 1 year working ah ? I less than 1 year but confirmed staff already, how ?

Depends on your boss and/or company policy. Some companies give a small bonus to those working 6mths - 1 year and normal bonus to 1yr and above.

NAme: Peter Lee
Job Title : Crown ambassador
Job Desciption : people helping people
Company : Click Here
Industry : Trade and Service (code 6351 KLSE main board)
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : sales -> DD -> emerald -> diamond -> crown -> crown ambassador

sales salary RM0-RM3000
DD salary RM3000 above
emerald salary RM10K above
diamond salary RM10K above
crown salary RM50K above

Experience before joining : no, sales experience is higher consideration
salary : normally above RM100K per month. for myself

This post has been edited by wecha: Jan 14 2005, 01:12 PM

you can go carrefour and apply for one...
low requirement, good starting, low incremental, almost no promotion to higher rank..

This post has been edited by wecha: Jan 14 2005, 01:23 PM

Job Title : Production Executive/Assistant Director/Writer
Job Description : Filmmaker
Job Responsibilities : Film Production Management
Company : Non-Listed
Industry : Film & Television/Entertainment
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : None. Joined with only passion & heart
Duration with current company: Confidential
Income : RM 2K to Unlimited

Ah, another Network Marketer. I have a part-time Network Marketing business with E.Excel International.

one secret just you may not know, foreign company used to hire headhunter to head hunt its own employee instead of retrench....

where you go? puchong a... dont tell me is the STORE there....
waiting for manager post..? excel offer you long term committment o...good ma, preventive approach.... just the cactus juice and ginseng fruit and the grape seed sell too expensive. I dont know whether next time if hospital set up, people could accept worldwide or not...

sorry off-topic,

lowyat nickname is case sensitive??
how come someone has the nick Vanguish while mine is vanguish?

No, I'm with the SS Centre group in Uptown Damansara, Kelvyn Lim's downline.

Cactus juice, Ginseng Berry and Grape seed too expensive? I'm not surprised you see it that way, a lot of people feels the same too... Until they actually consumed it themselves.

It's not a hospital E.Excel is setting up, it's just a small medical center. Cheers.

My nick is VANQUISH. Notice the "Q"? It's not "G".

just one question.... will they be no more expensive after they consumed it? price is fixed waht? why not you try our WTS and Air circulation system.... these thing are price reasonable

from my fren:

Job: Supercar salesman.
Company: Dunno
Salary: 15% commission for each car sold.

my fren said that he sold 5 of 2.5mil supercar( ferrari, maseratti? forgot which). So go figure the commision he got.

This post has been edited by Budur: Jan 15 2005, 12:47 AM

Anyone working in lab related job?

Job Title : Engineer
Job Responsibilities : Prepare Quatations, Design, Correspondence, supervision at job site... almost everything except washing the toilet.
Company : Private
Industry : Engineering, Construction
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : Executive... I think...
Experience before joining : 0
Duration with current company: 18 months
Salary : RM 2000 + some allowance

for fresh graduate and first job...i think your salary is reasonable. u will see a substantial pay rise once u have more experience and and join another company. are u working in KL ? look at mine....after so many years....still cannot break that 3k barrier.

This post has been edited by relaxjack: Jan 16 2005, 10:04 PM

errr.. what is usck occk? RM7000??

i think is duduk atas peha la

Well, compare to you. I guess I'm the lucky one. Do you have an engineering degree? If so, I feel very sad for you. Well, I attended a few interviews already, just waiting for them to decide. Hope I get a better salary in the new company.

Oh, by the way, yes, I'm in KL.

Job Title : Customer Support Analyst
Company : Listed
Industry : IT
Tenur : Contract
Employment Level : Dunno
Experience before joining : 5 (years and industry relevance)
Salary : RM 2+++

This post has been edited by janica: Sep 30 2006, 03:02 AM

Job Title : Senior Marketing Comm. Exec
Job Responsibilities : Corporate image maintenance, A&P, Media relations, etc.
Company : Non-listed
Industry : Consultancy
Employment Level : Senior Executive
Experience before joining : 3 years
Duration with current company: 1 1/2 years
Salary : RM 3,800 + Allowances

let me try.....sukc cokc. will it be much easier for u to read

This post has been edited by Lunix: Jan 18 2005, 08:47 PM

-I moved it-

Job Title : Analyst Programmer
Job Responsibilities : System design,coding,support.....
Company : Small.....MSC status near KLCC ..
Industry : Web solution,mobile commerce
Employment Level : Not sure..some say senior...project leader but none under me..I lead myself
Experience before joining : 5 months industrial training
Duration with current company: 7 months
Salary : RM1800 + RM 200 allowance...

Good?But I am the lowest paid among my batch...
Will cabut once found better offer

kekekeke ..... consultant ma .......
sure high ler .....

1. ya gotta be good
2. ya gotta be good looking

us techie guys ....... *sigh*

I think your company spending too much on rental, that's y neglect ur pay
what is a small IT company doing in KLCC. better opt for TPM or Cyberjaya.. so much cheaper (suckier though)

i think it also depends on LUCK lor...some ppl got this luck to earn big money. I have a friend earning 2.7K as fresh grad, another 3K after working for 1 year and another one 2K and his academic performance sucks.

any1 got info on pays for engineers in Johor Penang and KL respectively?? Thanks

My friend's sister working as a tester in Intel (penana), 2.8k fresh grad with 3.8+ CGPA.

It is at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng not exactly KLCC....

Job Title : Senior Software Engineer
Job Responsibilities : System design,coding,support.....
Company : MNC in Cyberjaya with MSC Status
Industry : Billing
Employment Level : One level above bottom
Experience before joining : 8 years
Duration with current company: 4 years
Salary : RM5300 + RM400 allowance...

Job Title : Customer Support Analyst
Job Responsibilities : helpdeskC
Company : huge
Industry : IT
Employment Level : lover
Experience before joining : 2 years
Duration with current company: new
Salary : RM2.8K + OT Pay + Need to work in public holiday

me work as part time and get for 1k only....

This post has been edited by Chee: Feb 4 2005, 10:16 PM

Job Title : PHP programmer
Job Desciption : produce system with PHP
Company : Local web software house
Industry : IT software
Tenur : permanent
Employment Level : unior exec i think
Experience before joining : intership 3 months,
Duration with current company: 2 months
salary : RM 1,700 (before confirmation)

what do you guys think about it???

Job Title : Tech Support (Level 1)
Job Responsibilities : PC, mainframe software, network, PC software. (low level only, cannot fix, call the expert..Level 2)
Company : MNC, HQ in US
Industry : IT
Employment Level : Small potato
Experience before joining : 1 year
Duration with current company: 1 year, 2 months
Salary : Started at RM 2.9k (basic pay + allowance, haven't + OT yet), but after 6 months get increment to RM 3.2k (due to excellent work performance)
DOWNSIDE : Work from 10pm to 7am (US Central Hours)...must work on M'sian holidays!

BUT!

I "get" promoted to another department, Network Security (Level 2)
My pay DROPPED to RM2.7!

Reason: I was stupid to accept it quickly. New boss say accept the offer to transfer to the new department, then will revise my salary.

Only after accepting in, my new boss say I will not be getting increment, no allowance as well due to the fact that I will be working normal business hours

After some dicussion, the new boss say the next salary review will be coming in 3 - 5 months time, he will review and revise my salary then...

If my salary still the same.........


What do you guys think?

Should I crawl back to my old job? Downside is no life.

Or stick to the new post? Maybe this will present a better career path?

Any advise from experienced IT professionals?
This deduction is killing me, need to support younger sister for college, pay for car etc...

This post has been edited by tsubok: Jan 28 2005, 06:36 PM

wos...you starting pay is standard.

My first job with a shitty local company was only RM 1.5k.

Job Title : DCS Engineer
Job Responsibilities : responsible for Power Plant Distributed Control Systems
Company : Mitsui Power... project for TNB in PD
Industry : Power Plant
Tenur: Contract
Employment Level : I&C Supervisor
Experience before joining : 3 years
Duration with current company: 1 year
Salary : RM7k + allowance

Im from the philippines.... mabuhay!
looking for a permanent job here...

all of you have super duper salary. for me so sikit nia. I am planning to open my own software house soon and be my own boss.

Job Title : IT/CS Helpdesk
Job Responsibilities : Lvl 1 Tech Support/Customer Service
Company : MNC in Cyberjaya with MSC Status
Industry : Oustsource servicing
Employment Level : Perm.
Experience before joining : 1.5 yrs
Duration with current company: 6 mths
Salary : RM2XXX +RM300 Allowance

Job Title : Engineer
Job Desciption : as above
Years spent in company : 8 months
Company : Foreign company
Industry : Manufacturing
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Err... not really sure
Experience before joining : 4yrs+ in manufacturing line (semi-con)
Salary : Never enough

Wow you guys are really earning a lot, i just want to ask is there any one of u is doing business and IT job it is because i am studying that and people have said that it will be popular in the future but from what i have seen from my seniors after they graduated all they do is sales and it is totally not related to IT at all.So i just want to ask is there anyone out there has got a job in this field and what are the prospect in the future is it gonna be good. If yes plz post the company that he or she is working on and the salary.

Job Title : Marketing Personnel
Job Responsibilities : Selling houses
Company : local Developer Company at kuantan
Industry : housing property
Employment Level : Perm.
Experience before joining : 0
Duration with current company: 6 mths
Salary : RM800 +RM50 Allowance +RM100 per house
Education : STPM (currently taking Diploma in Business Marketing)

Not very pleased with my current salary. Even after comfirmation i din get my increasement.

so far the lowest salary at here!! SAD~!!!

Job Title : Flash / ASP Programmer
Job Desciption : Produce webpages, portals and webgames, integrating Flash with ASP (dynamic Flash pages).
Company : Local web software house
Industry : IT software
Tenur : Permanent
Experience before joining : 2 years in Multimedia company
Duration with current company: 1 year
Salary : RM 2,5K.

I think my salary should be higher, maybe around 3 to 3.5K. 2.5K is too low, considering that i also did some graphics, animation, video and sound editing.
Whoa! Most of u guys earn a lot. Many rich people here. I envy u guys.

This post has been edited by axe: Jan 31 2005, 01:36 PM

YOu can only able to get a better salary by "jump"

Job Title : Sales & Support Exec
Job Desciption : Software sales, support & training
Company : New local company
Industry : IT software
Tenur : Permanent
Experience before joining : >3 years in software distribution
Duration with current company: ½ year
Salary : RM 2K+Car Allowance+Claims+5% on Gross Profit if target achieved

This post has been edited by southadam: Jan 31 2005, 05:31 PM