If you can get a better offer elsewhere, go ahead... what's stopping you? You don't need to take an offer that you don't like.

May I know what research you have done to find out the market rate for second upper class graduate? If you asked around, you would find out that different companies will have different policy and different pay scale. It is up to the individual company to decide how much they want to give you.

And how come you have so many offers at hand when you have not attended some of the interviews yet? Personally, I think it is decent enough for a fresh grad, but you are most welcome to wait for other offers (or risk being jobless and losing RM 2k X number of months jobless + no gurantee the offer you may get will be how good) if you are not happy with what you are offered

I'm sure he is or he wouldn't have so many offers, rite?

Anyway, "market rate" is not quite the same between various parts of Malaysia. To some parts, 2k is low whereas other parts it may be high. IMO, 2k is probably considered to be good in KL for a fresh graduate but considered not good when compared to Penang.

So if your preference is purely pay and nothing else, you should probably move to Penang. Since there are several potential interviews, I'm pretty sure that talented people such as yourself will definitely breeze through it and it is probably not a very bad idea to turn down the offers that you have now. I doubt the companies offering you 2k will give you 2.5-3k even if you try to negotiate with them.

Well said!

However I'm not sure people will agree with me on the following:

1. You don't necessarily apply what you learn in uni despite the excellent grades.
2. One of the important criteria to ask as a freshie is what you can learn (to decorate your resume), and not so much on squeezing employer for a few hundred bucks.
3. Yes, there shouldn't be a problem to find job. However, some people may not be as fortunate as you.

Speaking from a former employer point of view, I usually start negotiating with other candidates once a fresh grad starts playing hardball with salary. To me, there are plenty of fresh grad that may take up the offer and if there's nothing special with the candidate that is playing hardball, I'll usually move on to the next person.

Sometimes salary is not only the thing to look at. It's easier for salary to go up then to change a policy regarding other benefits. Sometimes the company that give you RM 200 less, gives RM 400 for vision benefits, or RM 500 for dental yearly (and may be extended to your family) so I guess you must look at the overall package.