Forgot to mention. That salary only base salary plus base allowances.
Free accomodation, free  water and power supply. Free educational internationl school for my child. Annual bonus. Annual airfare that allows me and my family to go back and forth 3 times a year or spent for holiday.
Living in a secure compound/neighbourhood.
Minus side-far away from parents/siblings.

The salary depends on type of packages.
If you opt a single package you might end up having 20-30k a month as a junior staff.

any vacancy for qs?  Haha

5digit in USD or after conversion ?

If conversion , any 2k above USD can reach RM 5 digit liao

Btw how's market there, heard my fren say trump is going to start more construction work there

Hi bro. How do you look for jobs in America? Any issues on working permits or visa?? Did you need to fly there for interview or what not? Was it easy to secure a job there?

Few reasons the salaries here could be exaggerated:

1) Those who earn a lot feel more proud and more likely to report.
2) They overstate their salaries hoping to create an impression that salaries in their respective industries have skyrocketed. They hope this will make people who are in the same industries as them and who read about their "high salaries" demand for more and hopefully this will really cause an actual increase in salaries. Whether this will happen or not is besides the point.
3) People overstating their salaries here to make people jealous. This is very possible. Just look at all the travel and nice fine dining photos posted in Facebook and Instagram.

When asked about net worth, salaries, incomes etc, it is normal human behaviour to overstate. Not saying all or majority here overstate but I think there are at least some overstatement.

looks dope. mind sharing which site u were using

job Title : Civil engineer
Job description: supervise, monitoring, dealing, drawing etc
Age: 23
Years spent in company : 0
Industry : supervision consultant
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Fresh
Experience before joining : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor
Salary : RM3.4k
Location: KL

i feel underpaid coz i work 6 days per week (full time saturday)

Not much on this topic in other industries. There was one generic article saying that one of the justifications was the 'hardships' of living abroad, 'inconveniences' and 'exchange rate' of said expat and their home country as factors for the gap in salary. I kinda chuckled because well maybe back in the 60s or 70s you could use that argument. But these days I think 'hardship' would be better replaced by 'perks' and 'benefits' of working abroad.

Also, from a broader perspective, wouldn't it be better if they evened out the salary gap? By that I mean probably reducing the wages of expats while increasing the wage of the locals. But again, I'm not a business owner so I am not talking from experience.

Any employers/upper management/owner of businesses care to comment? I'm asking because, sincerely, I want to know why - please don't take this as an attack on expats or failure of upper-management in managing employees.

Job Title : Contract executive
Job Desciption : Fit Out contractor
Years spent in company : 3.5
Company : xxx
Industry : ID contractor
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 0.5year
Highest paper qualification/ education background : BSc (Hons) Building Management
salary : RM3500
Location: Ampang

Yeap, next jump most probably main con...

Your 3.5k at year?
consultant workload is heavy ya? OT until no day and night...

Sounds cool! oversea! SG? Arab or China?

yeap.. Consultant QS sounds no life... i cant take it pun

mind sharing how u get a oversea job offer? i am a QS also

Wow, Africa! Which part exactly if your don't mind me asking?

How different is the culture there vs MY?

Wow Africa! Everyday can see elephant and lion run around?

Just to clarify, you're not doing land-surveying right?

Which country specifically? Seems like an adventure   

same age but your salary 14k  mind tell me which company you're in? im interested  you're in consulting firm or contractor firm?