Job title: Process Engineer
Job description: Electronic Transceiver Process
Years spent in company: 1yr
Company: VTS Sdn Bhd
Industry: Electronic
Tenure: Permanent
Employment level: Executive
Experience before joining: Fresh Grad
Salary: 2.2k, started with 2.2k (during 6 months probation).
No increment after cnfirm...
Then anual increment only rm48....

Need to manage the mney crefully...
still can survive but not enough for leisure time... =)

only 48?   i got 60 leh after 3mth last time when am working as budak pasaraya..   so sikit owh.. at least 150 still ok la..

Normally how many percent increment? In average.

In big 4 u can get 50% increment

Below is my friend's details, he wanna to know whether he underpaid or not?

Job title: Senior executive, compliance officer
Job description: Financial institution / bank
Years spent in company: 3 years
Company: Local bank
Industry: Investment
Tenure: Permanent
Employment level: Executive
Experience before joining: 3 years experience
Salary: currently 3.5k, join new company will be 4k
No increment after cnfirm...

Anyone can help him whether he should join?

She is asking as a compliance officer, what is the range of salary for senior executive? if you know assitant manager salary range?

Ya, looks like very underpaid

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Added on August 15, 2012, 12:48 amJob Title : Senior Developer (.NET)Job Desciption : Programming, Mentoring Junior
Age: 31
Years spent in company : 1 year
Company : MNC
Tenure : Full time
Experience before joining : 8 yrs+
Salary : RM 9k
Is it consider underpaid or fair?

Honestly speaking, these lets talk salary thread are rather pointless and really throws the scale off. Mainly because people with lower salary will probably not be posting their salary compared to the higher ones posted here, and people who know they have fairly high pay will see this as a chance to brag.

Then the people who has no clue will come in here, and read and assume this is what they should be making, when probably more than 83% of the market makes less than that, and then goes on to request that high amount from future employers. And they wonder why they don't get hired.

That being said, HR should be more transparent about how much they're paying on average, else they get unreasonable pay demands.

I think the situation goes both ways. But if everyone were to be earning that amount, then someone will start to complain they're making too low. So since the employer are the ones who plan for what they can afford (and willing) to pay, employees should be less demanding.

On the other hand, there are too many low balling jobseekers messing up the scale in Jobstreet in that a job requires someone to have X years experience in Y expertise, and then those blokes who don't qualify applies anyway, and totally screws over those people who DO qualify for that post. Then the employers call them in for interview and then bargains it down. It's a vicious cycle.

U are one of employers  who dont accept ur employees ask higher salaries ar?  Now people should aim  high, many people spoil market  now. Companies with  profit usd  1 billion paid 3k for  2yrs exp accountant. U think reasonable to look jobstreet?

Then thats good mang. People here stated their salary to know undervalued  or not. Accept it  or not someone willing to be paid peanuts although he is outstanding.eg it guy from india.. not only in stock market got undervalued  and overvalued. Accept it or  not  in labour market got. See  zingapore paid more for accountants although do the same  job

Since you mentioned MIA, your definition of Accountant is Chartered Accountant (Malaysia) where to be one, you'd have to have accounting qualifications recognised by MIA which can either be professional qualifications or university degrees recognised under the Accountants Act, and 3 years relevant working experience.

The term "accountant" has been cheapened in the Malaysian context where you can see a lot of advertisements put up by small, "Chinaman" companies seeking "accountant with 2 years' experience". These are not "accountants", these are "account assistants".

Even if working as an accountant in Singapore you get paid the same as in Malaysia, you'd be better off there. I'm comparing like for like here. Assuming you can earn RM5k here and SGD5k there, the lower cost of living and better security and transportation in Singapore compared to Malaysia, enable you to save a lot there compared to Malaysia. Of course, this is in the short term, say 5 years. if you're thinking of staying long term in Singapore, there are a lot of other factors to take into consideration, for example, career growth and ability to grow your level of income to buy property there, etc.

Perhaps your friend is working like a dog there because of the different financial reporting standards being used there. I do think that if you're smart and capable and are conversant with technical aspects, the workload would not be such a burden.

Im 23 yrs already in supervisory level, how? Got offer in financial analyst

Hi, im a fresh grad and start pursuing professional qualification ACCA(5 papers left)

I got an offer to an "accounts assistant" post.
RM2000 p/m no allowances.
Probation period - 3 months.
Increment after probation depends on performance.
Working hour - weekdays only 9:00am-6:30pm
Company - garment and fashion industry
Tenure - Permanent
Experience before joining - 0

Is the pay reasonable?

You definitely need at least professional qualification to grow in the accounting/finance line, even if you don't want to be a Chartered Accountant. Without professional qualification, the most you can be in an MNC is in a junior supervisory role. Anything higher than that I would assume you'd need some form of professional qualification to advance. At least that's how I see it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Please note that I am talking about those companies with global presence and not those smaller local companies which might have different circumstances. Normally an MNC with a global presence require some kind of quality control on their accounting/finance staff and tend to hire professionals with proper qualification and working experience. Having only either one won't cut it.

thanks for advice. Im now studying cima and cfa. Im working at european mnc listed at euronext.

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Added on August 16, 2012, 9:37 pm

Im replacing someone who had worked for 13yrs there and got salary adjusrment 20% tgere after requested to resign but now got another offer. Prof qualification is important i agree. Im wotking towards my cima and cfa bro

I have no professional qualification too, just a lousy local uni degree and because of this, combined with my observations, I feel that it's better to have professional qualification. Sometimes, people look down on me having just a lousy degree compared to them who have such nice sounding titles as ACCA, MICPA, CIMA, CPA, etc etc. Have had to prove myself time and again through my work that YES, DAMMIT, I can work as well as those with nice sounding professional qualifications and even exceed them in terms of quality of work and speed of delivery. I still feel that those with professional qualifications have it easier at work - by default, people perceive them as more capable and more professional than those without these qualifications.

Just my 2 cents.

Then after u got ur prof qualification. Is it necessary to get MBA too? Later u say manager need master degree. For me, i will not waste another 100k for MBA since i want to build my personal investment.

^ There are MNCs who sponsor employees to pursue MBA courses. No harm taking these kind of offers up if you enjoy working for the company.

Not every company will sponsor you MBA man..Most banks will sponsor the MBA..
However, you will see the opportunity cost of 2 years full time study, it will cost you your salary unless your company still pay you salary while you are studying your full time MBA degree. Good Luck!

why don't you take CFA?

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Added on August 20, 2012, 4:53 pm

if you believe professional degree>MBA then why don't you take CFA? Only around 4oo people have it.

ur qualification? fresh or experienced?

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Added on August 21, 2012, 2:39 pm

My sister IA at cimb, got CIAFIN+CFA but in banking sectors she said they only considered ur experience and ur ability in completing ur task successfully,otherwise if u not satisfy with ur salary u always can jump to other bank for demanding the salary

@angel-face
Thats precisely the mentality the workforce doesn't need.

@Glenhow
People get different pay based on how well they performed in the interview, qualifications (grades do matter to certain corp such as Intel for example, which will get you higher pay there) etc.