Age: 26
Job Title : Project Engineer
Job Description : Working with Contractor for KLIA2
Years spent in company : 2 years
Company : Civil
Industry : Construction
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : Nil
Salary : RM3k Basic + RM200 Site Allowance + RM150 Phone Bill + RM200 Fuel Allowance + OT and Petty Cash Claim (Starting Salary was Rm2300)

Am i underpaid?

Job Title : Engineer
Job Desciption : Manage hydrocarbon reservoir performance
Years spent in company : 2 months
Company : -
Industry : Oil & Gas
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 0. Fresh grad
Salary : RM4,000

Job Title : Software Engineer
Job Desciption : design and program electronics product
Years spent in company : 1.5 year in current company
Company : -
Industry : OEM Manufacturing
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 6 years
Salary : RM4,300

10% is rare case in some company like Sony or Flextronics, should be 0%-10%

This post has been edited by Steven83: Jan 19 2013, 10:24 PM

Yeah...especially skill in mouth. I saw too much of each example. All you need a low tech skill and high in verbal skill. Good lesson for me.

Age : 23
Job Title : Hospitality Consultant
Job Description : Going to Hotels to install, implement, educating and to give proper suggestion based on hotel requirement. Sometime stays in office to give in-house training.
Years spent in company : 5 months (6th this month)
Education : Diploma in Information Technology. (Dropout during Degree)
Company : MNC
Industry : Hospitality Solutions (Hotels & POS(F&B))
Tenure : Permanent
Experience before joining : NIL
Salary : 2600 + 200 fixed allowance. Started with 2000 (Probation 3 months), became 2300 (Confirmed), became 2600(Year End Increment even though only 5 months in company)

Benefits : Petrol claim whenever visiting customer site, meal allowance of RM50/day, gets to travel to lots of different places, NO PUNCH CARD & not necessary to be in office if going on-site. Get to go back home early if job is finished early.

I feel like changing to a new company. Although this company exposed me to a lot of new faces and gaining new experience, but i feel like my current salary is insufficient.

The good thing is, this regional office in Malaysia just turned 1 yrs old. Should I stay or should I go?

If I was you, I won't change the job so fast, as you can said you have earn lots of new experience, company also exposed you, but what is the issued that let you wanna change the job? in term of salary? I advice is that you still young and can earn quite ok for salary compare to others, and the job give you flexible time as well.

You only have working there for few months (6 months), lack of experience so most of companies will look for your experiences

Maybe you have something wrong with this job?

No issue with jobs la. Just a thought of earning more money ma. But 1 issue is that, I still dunno how this company increment n bonus goes as it is new.

But either way, thanks for advice

Probably you can work until one year experience (only few months left, right) then only think about change a job

I think this is better for staff who work in a company for a year, but not for few months exp

Some more, you can have the bonus in that company as well.

plus u're a diploma holder...u're doing good actually

around what i have same like you few year ago.

This post has been edited by felixmask: Jan 20 2013, 08:49 PM

Job Title : IT Business Consultant
Job Description : Responsible for datacenter infrastructure architecture design for large corporations and projects
Education : M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from NUS
Company : MNC
Industry : IT Consulting
Tenure : Permanent
Experience before joining : 3
Salary : RM 8,000

Job Title : Grad. Structural Engineer
Job Desciption : Model, analyse and design offshore structures
Years spent in company : 1+
Company : MNC Consultant
Industry : Oil and Gas
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Graduate Engineer
Experience before joining : 1+ year (same industry different scope)
salary : RM 3.7k not including OT

I guess your off shore allowance will be a lot. (Could be more then your basic)

No. You don't really go offshore with a consultant because you're office based. You might be referring to engineers within offshore contractor companies. I had higher offshore allowance in a month more than my basic with my previous contractor company. But then again I wasn't offshore every month back to back.

3 years exp can reach this level.. not bad..

Job Title : Environmental engineer
Job Desciption : manage matters at project sites
Years spent in company : 2
Company : Local
Industry : Construction
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Graduate Engineer/Exec
Experience before joining : 2 years (different industry same scope)
salary : RM 3.5k + unlimited petrol n tolls n other claims + site allowance rm200 + hp, line with data plan + confirm 2 months bonus yearly
current job have lots of time freedom. ) working environment very condusive and JD also not bad.


am i underpaid? should i change my job?

got this one offer from small subsidiaries of petronas, but the job is 2 years contract tenure.
job kind of interesting and challenging but the term contract sound very scary laaaa...dont what to decide..

6 working days?

yes, 6 working days, common for construction industry.

I see...so this do indicate I'm underpay. Since that was few years ago with all the inflation, the salary at my experience should be higher. felixmask, I was kinda lost in my way. As an experience person in my field, can you advice based on your experience? Should I keep doing it or..