@dudey
I dont  know but I think you should be more specific as Big4 deals with a lot more than just accounting / auditing and both of this gets even bigger.

There's IT audit, consulting, business advisory etc. So which one are you referring to ?

Job Title : Engineer
Age : 23
Job Desciption : Production flow, R&D in solar energy, energy storage and energy conversion.
Years spent in company : 12 days
Company : Local
Industry : Manufacturing
Tenure : Probation 3 months
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 1 year as R&D Engineer cum Project Engineer
Salary : RM 2.6k
Benefits: Very good medical benefit, most probably because of hazardous working environment, 15% employer EPF, 5 days work, 8.30 to 5.30 (can go home at 5.30pm and no one will look at you differently), CAN CLAIM OT (1.5x hourly rate) even as executive.
Rumors: Fix annual increment, performance bonus and also company bonus with at least 1.5 months.

guys,, isn't possible if got 1 year exp can get above 3k??? coz currently my salary 2.6k and im planning to hops to other company but still related to my current scope of job.. @_@

u didn't tell us what's ur job also..
how to justify?

Job Title: Marine Navigation Officer
Age: 31
Job Description : Seafarer, sailing, Slave for the oil companies.
Years spent in company : 3 years
Company: MNC
Exp before joining : 6years
Tenure : permanent
Location: On the sea 3 months, at home 3 months
Basic salary : RM19000
working hour: On the ship, variable but 12-16 hours usually.
Benefit: Good workout doing physical work, long holidays, Tax free salary.

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Added on March 31, 2011, 5:22 pm

I think you can do better. Try jobstreet and look for Flextronics. They pay amazing wages for Process Engineers. With 5 years experience you will get a 5 figure salary.

ahh sorry.. forgot about that..

it security..related ips,firewall, network security devices.. all sort of it security related..not juz monitoring but also configuration and deployment

=.=...not really sure this is the right post to ask my question but owh well...hentam je.

i'm a fresh grad.
am going to end my probation very soon.
*whee~*
was wondering when is it more appropriate to discuss about my pay as a permanent staff. i'm pretty sure they'll keep me already cos i just talked with my superior about it recently...

should i wait until they ask me to sign the contract or i should discuss with them before they hand me the contract?

=p

Money is not a concern at early stage and you should try to diversify your technical skills first initially. Consulting firms will be a good place to do that as you'll be assigned to different kind of projects and challenges. ABAP should be your core but if you have any chances to do other technical skills like portal, bw, workflow or XI, then go ahead by all means. Once  you have strong grasp on all technical areas, you could go to end user to learn more on industry and business processes. A good technical consultant is the one that understands the business and has deep industry knowledge as you would be able to comprehend and provide a better solution. At this stage,  you might switch to functional if you want to or doing a hybrid role like BW (techno-functional). At the end of the day, you yourselves decide what's best for your career development. Do you like to manage people? deal with human relation? or you are just the opposite kinda person? Anyhow, build a strong technical foundation first, then decide what's best for you. Lastly, if you could, do it for the passion and not for money.

But as you can see, bonus really sucks lol.

I asked most of my colleague and most of them got 50% of per month salary.

And increment sucks too. My colleague 5 years working there RM3.2k only. So demotivating lol.

Hopefully I'll get a better offer after working few years here.

Shouldn't be a problem, provided you can justify your technical skills is solid. Heck, 3.2K(Negotiable) would be a nice figure in fact.

2600 + 20% = 3120. (Take the ceiling of the closest hundred: RM 3,200)
Most hoppers usually get a 10%-35% increase. 20% would be a safe bet.
Depends, SME or MNC.
Who's "call" is it to set the package? Your manager or HR?
Most companies have an allocated budget, hence the likelihood of you renego-ing another package is pretty difficult but not impossible. But generally, you talk about the package when the other party(HR or Manager) mentions about the package.