Yes, if that's what agreed in the letter of appointment.

Really depends on what field one is working in.

You have a mortgage loan and you still rent a room?

Actually your net income is after you deduct tax/EPF/SOCSO, not after your expenses.

Nice, it's rare to see people in mid 20s buying a house first, usually they go for cars

I'm also having this query. What sort of engineer can command such pay with just 3+ years experience? I know engineer friends from many different fields who earn way less with similar/more experience. Taking into account starting pay would be the market rate of around RM2.5-3k.

If you'd read again carefully what I said, you would notice that is what I said.

Is it me or are others reading my post wrongly?

I just mentioned that the starting pay was in the region of RM2.5k-3k, not current pay after 3+ years. Obviously there are increments but not to the region of earning more than RM4k, which is the puzzling thing that dexmonata and I are having.

Do not assume that my friends are underperforming or whether they should be bargaining for better pay. I would say it's according to the market rate. Getting paid more than RM4k (up to RM6k) for a regular engineer in a typical field with 3+ years experience is uncommon and out of the norm, thus the query.

This post has been edited by ravensteele: Oct 6 2012, 11:07 PM