Everyone been talking about fresh grad, you no experience, u not deserving that pay etc but how about those people who have skills and experience. Giving same pay to fresh grad is discrimination. Not because most grad have no hands on experience, means that others don't.

By the time I grad, I have like 1 year android development experience and if i go to interview, they offering me pay same as other who don't even know anything. You can argue that I got better chance to get the job or faster raise but I myself feels that after working hard learning a lot stuff, people just treat me like those any other normal fresh grad. Salary is not because how much I need to survive but how much you value me at. Don't talk about startup but MNC are those who are actually doing these.

I've seen company reject resume because they aren't 3.0. I know guys who have bad pointer but exactly great team member and have the right skills to do it but just because one value on your cert, you aren't given the chance.

Back to topic, I earn more than 2500 and even I spend like I dont care much and live comfortably, i could hardly hit 2.5k per month. 2500 can live quite ok if you don't have car and renting. I remember someone posted, you got 2k, u live a 2k life, you got 10k, you live 10k life, so even then, you not saving much because of what you spent on.