How about cost of living in Australia such as food, house and so on ? is it too expansive compare to malaysia?

Thanks annielee for the reply,

I was scheduled to migrate to Austaralia sometime next 2 month for working reason. I will be based at Welshpool, Western Australia. Do you know about this place? is it a rural or urban place? How about cost of living there? Can I save some money to bring back to Malaysia when I'm working abroad at OZ?

No witch. We are willing to listen your chit chat with annielee as it might be interesting and moreover it more or less can help somebody like me or anyone else whose never been to Aussie before. heheh..

Anyway, how about Australian people? are there kind & friendly? what else the important things I should know about Australia if I were to work there?

Cheers.

Hi everyone, I have a few doubts. Does an expatriate who is residing in Australia need to pay tax? if so, what are those taxes?

Thanks.

Waaaa... how high is it? die la if like that... haha.. probably Annielee, If y u dont mind, appreciate your suggestion or idea on how I should demand for my salary at Aussie?Apparently cost of living in Aussie is much more higher than malaysia.. wondering how much should i demand

Did u mean 40 % of their salaries? wow.. can be considered as high. if that the case, how to make money when working abroad, no use working abroad but salary still the same as what is in Malaysia.

oo.. in which line of work u are in right now?

hi,

just want to check with you all. If I got an Australia visa under Employer Sponsored Workers type, which subclass I will fall into? the reason why I'm asking this, because I surf through Department of Immigration Australia website, I found out that there are two major types of Visa. one is permanent & the other is temporary. And still there are many Visa sub-types under those two categories which is called as Subclass. So, can someone brief me about this complex things.

Thanks

Guys,

Hi fellow Malaysians. Just want to check with you all.. Will I survive with the salary of AUS $ 5000.00 per month in Aussie when considering the cost of living there is quiet high. Actually. I just don't know how high is it. I hope someone will enlighten me about this thing. I'm still single which mean I will be going there alone, so is it enough for me to survive there utilizing the said figure above? and would I have some money to bring back to Malaysia?

As all of you know there is a tax for expatriate being implemented is Australia and it is higher compare to other countries, so how it is calculated? and how many percent of the salary one have to pay taxwise?

For your information, I will be working at Perth/Western Australia. Are there any additional and useful information I need to know before going there?

Thanks in advance.

ooo.. that figure is before tax, so what will be the new figure after taxed? Goodness me, $300/week just for 1 room in an apartment. anyway, thanks for your reply.

cooking? you must be kidding right? I'm afraid that I will be lazy to cook... hehe,, I'm in Oil & Gas line and the company's office is located at Perth. I forget to ask before, beside the basic salary, does the offshore allowance still have to pay tax?

Actually I still can be considered as a fresh graduate as I only have experience of not more than 1 year. Emm.. around 10 month working experience to date. As a matter of fact, I'm being offered the salary of 70000 USD/AUSD plus offshore allowance of 330 USD/AUSD per  day. I still need to clarify with the company's HR regarding my salary currency, because it's not clearly stated in the offer of employment letter whether I will be paid in American or Australian dollar.



Thank goodness, it means that I will be taxed at a lower rate, am I right? Thanks for your info, really helps me a lot.

This post has been edited by Them_Me_You: Jun 7 2010, 09:30 PM