Age : 23
Job Title : Field Service Engineer
Job Desciption : Provide service, maintenance for chemical instruments at customer sites
Years spent in company : First month, still in probation period
Education: BS degree in chemistry, not engineering.
Location : Penang
Industry : Services
Experience before joining : Fresh grad
salary : RM2200 basic, rm600 fixed allowance every month, RM0.60/km when I travel to customer sites (everyday, sometimes multiple sites per day), meal allowance when customer sites are out of Penang state (rm25 half day, rm50 a day), company phone and touch n go card (strictly for job purposes), 18% incentive of 3 months pay every 3 months if the company hits their target.

For the first month, I am getting a total of ~rm1100 mileage claim and ~rm500 of meal allowance, and according to my colleague, ~rm1200 to ~rm1500 is the average of monthly allowance for mileage and meal.

I know my basic is kinda low but the allowances are pretty decent. Office hours are 8:30 to 6:00, but I am only required at the office every monday at 9am for meeting, once I get my schedule for the week, I am told to go to customer sites from home, without going to office everyday, once work is done (maybe after like 3pm or 4pm), can go home straight, no need to go back to office until 6pm, hence no punch card.

What does an average 30 year old in Malaysia earn anyways?

Need help.
Want to take Accounting & Finance coarse. Just After spm 2012.
Want to know the salary with no experiences, 1 year, 2 years n 6 years.

Plz help me up cause I badly wanna know the salary before i jump into that coarse. So, I have strength to go through the coarse full heart .hehe

Thanks.

Age : 26
Job Title : Site Engineer
Job Desciption : Monitoring and managing construction progress
Years spent in company : 1+ year
Education: BEng. Civil
Location : Selangor
Industry : Constuction
Experience before joining : Fresh grad
Salary : 2400 + 350 allowance, 200 for hardship allowance without OT, got hostel

Am I underpaid?

Age : 23 (this year 2013)
Job Title : IT security Access control  (Executive, IT and Operations)
Job Desciption : Access control ( Password , cert , ID ect)
Years spent in company : New
Company : -
Industry : Banking
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Exec
Experience before joining : IBM call center ( Agent )
Salary : RM 2.8k basic + bonus 3 months per year + allowance (medical / mileage / dental / meal)
Good ? i dont know . lol
im here to take experience

Age : 27 (this year 2013)
Job Title : IT Support (Executive, IT and Operations)
Job Desciption : Support & Maintenance (Hardware & Software, Broker Front End System, BackOffice System, Network, ETC)
Years spent in company : 1 1/2 year
Company : Local Investment Bank
Industry : Financial
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Exec
Experience before joining : Same industry & job scope, different company (3 yrs)
Salary : RM 2.7k basic + bonus 2 months per year + allowance (seldomly claim - medical / mileage / dental / meal)

underpaid?yes i know.i'm thinking of jump ship because of unclear career path & low salary increment.but i dont know which industry to jump in..any suggestion?

rezeki .
min 2 month bonus if cant get my KPI in place .
but the KPI here very easy to achieve . hope fully i will stay here for 2-3 year then i will jump to another company or maybe not coz the environment here quite good

atleast RM1800?

Age: 30
Job Title : Staff Electronic Design Engineer
Job Description : Component Logic Design
Years spent in company : 2 months
Company : MNC
Industry : Semiconductor
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 8
salary : RM120k per annum (including allowances, bonuses, profit sharing).

Fair compensation?

Does he got any work experience before taking his/her master? Or he just continued his master after his/her degree and started to work @ 26?

There will be never an end if we keep comparing someone's salary with someone's income. What we will need to know over this subforum is either the pay is stick to the market line or not.

What sort of office job he is working with? Where is the work place?

If you're saying it's kind of less when comparing to people like Charlton, why don't you compare to others which is lower? And I can see there's LOT of people here tend to post their income here if they earn a lot. Or earn quite okay, and those who earn terribly low would rather to say cannot be seen over here. 28 years old with 4k salary, how many of them can get this nowadays in Malaysia? 

What field is his company into? What position he is now? Office job can be a lot. And where is the office located. If you say it's in Sabah and this 4k can mean a lot.

since the job is not special, the pay also not special lo....
4k i think pretty average?

Master has no difference with Degree nowadays and probably you can get slightly higher salary at the starting point. For instance if I am degree holder and work for years under the company and once I get my master I can get increment for about few hundreds, of course depends on company but normally this is how it work.

Education background will help when you are asking for more starting salary but if you're working at ordinary stuffs, you will stick to that level forever.

4K for normal office job is considered a lot. People won't pay you because of your certification and they pay you for what you are able to do for them.

That is not totally correct.

Certain position require the staff to have specific certification, like MBA. In order to get that position you have to obtain that qualification.

Normally people will go for Master Degree when they want to get higher position, or they want to involve in Education related career, like a lecturer.

Master Degree is relatively useless and not practical especially if it's a Science degree. Unless you can get into the right company or the company needs your research.

Ok this yr is my bad yr. 4% increment only. Boss show my overall performance almost whole yr is A+ but then talk cock say bank performance not good so bear with it bla bla..sigh..

Depends on the sector. If you're talking about the banking sector then 4% is considered very low. Usually without promotion should be around 8%. With promotion usually around 10% - 20%.

Just to check I am underpaid and i need to balance up my paid up to current market:

Age : 34
Job Title : HOD/QA/ISO cordinator
Job Desciption : Manufacturing
Years spent in company : 14 years
Location : PG
Tenure : permanent
salary : RM 2500 basic + If Travel available  Rm 2100(allowance) 

Yup if only got travel can earn that RM 2100 allowance

Please advise.

Thanks.

My cousin in kpmg. Go  office from home at  7 then come back at 1 am when peak season. When low season then she will arrive at home at  8-9 pm.

I hope the bubble bursts and all us middle income earners can buy a decent house and keep on to it forever..