That's a lot tbh.
ex classmate i know, software developer, but earning around 3.5k only.
maybe because he's in manufacturing mnc and his background is electrical engineering.

How many years of experience? And what language is he doing?
Degree or diploma holder?

I'm on finance side in financial institution. Actually the RM4k was obtained after one year of working, if by the end of the second year I would have got an increment and it would be around RM4.3k.

Not sure the language,
~3 years, degree holder.

I'm too a software developer, but total experience 2 years+, (1y8m in this MNC), this is my 2nd company. Age 25, and my salary is way too low, I think even lower than market price. only 3.2k. My language skill set is MVC 6 core 2.1, EF7, simple skill of JS, Python, RESTful API developer (develop api), SDK developer and an embedded developer for Python. MNC based in Shah Alam, and I'm consider a team leader here in-charge of multiple peoples. What do you think my salary range suppose to be at?

I don't know what skill set and level you are at for your programming skill-set to achieve that high amount of income and especially at your age. I have been completed many projects and most of the time I'm solo in most of the software development and complete in time or even earlier. The new manager likes me and assign me a side project that not related to the company, although he is not the one who hired me. Anyway, I don't know how much value my skill set will get to offer, would you enlighten me?

*PS: I plan to hop

RM4.3K is perfectly fine I feel, quite market standard for 2 years exp.

If you plan to hop, maybe you can ask yourself have you learned enough in your current job? Or are there any frustrating elements to be considered?

One way is you can try updating your resume and wait for head hunters to call. This way you will know how much you're worth outside.

Based on what you described, you're quite underpaid. Although my ex colleague with 5 years experience is getting somewhere around your pay too.

What is your starting pay in your first job? I assume you didn't get much increment during your hop to second company.

With your experience & technology involved, I think many company are willing to offer up to 5k, no issue.

I'm a .NET fullstack developer, working on Javascripts (Jquery & AngularJS), SQL, and .NET4.5 stuffs.

Started my career with 3k salary, and I got most of my increment from my second company, involved in alot of crazy projects and my manager liked me. After that, took a decent jump to my third company(current place)

This post has been edited by budang: Dec 20 2018, 02:54 PM

Job Title : Engineer
Job Desciption : Maintaining aircraft on technical side (non license engineer)
Age : 27
Years spent in company : 3
Company :
Industry : Airline
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Engineer / But I assume company treat as Exec level
Experience before joining (years) : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : My
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): ~ 40 hrs

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 3.8k++
Contractual Bonus (months): Varies (lowest I had 1 mths, highest 3 mths)
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : Double if outstanding, triple with exceptional (both is like impossible to happen.)

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : outpatient + hospitalization + dental for wife and kids
Transport Benefits : Discounted flight, limited free ticket/year
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : NIL
Flexi Working Hours : Office hrs
Other Benefits : daily food allowance.

Looking to land a SG job if possible. Hoping for Airbus to open at Labu soon too. Gonna take forever probably.

My 1st company offer higher, which is 3.5k, but due to some reason i'm hop to 2nd company, but at that meantime I have no work for 1 month cause I have savings that enough for me to sustain my daily expenses. After that, took the 2nd company offer, like in the previous post, as written in the offer letter I could get the amount I demand, but I got lowballed, that time I guess I still a noob , as for now my skill set and job scope is slowly spread wider. Were a full stack .Net developer handling project like what you described here, using all newest technology platform to develop big projects, and until now involved to Python which is not a .Net field. If positive thinking, that would be additional positive point. Now come back to salary topic, I guess i am underpaid for having doing multiple jobscope.

PS: I also handling Server stuffs such as server migration etc.

Based on Shah Alam market price, it shouldn't be too low. and also my increment were only 5.5%, highest is 8% that applies to higher management. They say 5.5% is high , now I don't know.

Job Title : Engineer
Job Desciption : Life safety and risk
Age : 25
Years spent in company : <1
Company : SDN BHD
Industry : Engineering Consultancy
Tenure : -
Employment Level : Junior
Experience before joining (years) : 1
Highest paper qualification/ education background : BEng
Location : KL City
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): standard office hour

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 3000
Contractual Bonus (months): -
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : No KPI but have annual bonus subject to employer's discretion

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : medical card + insurance
Transport Benefits : RM500 car expenses
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : company phone and line, laptop
Flexi Working Hours : -
Other Benefits : reserved parking space,out of office claimmables

This post has been edited by sidefulnes: Dec 20 2018, 11:37 PM

quite high compare to mine as mine was 3% only

i left my previous company because boss only give me 5% increment.
as a fresh grad, that is very very little.
when asked boss why i only get 5%, he say he need to fit it into the bell curve/ distribution.

Usually MNC is like this. They have thousands of employees around the globe, and if their business doesn't grow much (let's say 5% per annum only), but they give average 5% increment to everyone, their business won't be healthy.

And for the normal distribution graph / bell curve, it applies to everywhere around the world A-Z, no way you can hide from it.

Hence, only the best gets the best feed. The normal guys won't climb too high.

This post has been edited by budang: Dec 21 2018, 10:14 AM

thats why sometimes i like small business.
you can see your boss everyday, got issue just straight to his office.
their increment is usually lump sum amount, ie 500, 1000

i think in mnc, you wont even have chance to meet your ceo/director lol

True, I've seen my friend in small company raking in 1000 - 2000 increment a year. But cons is you do few man job, as their team is not big and everyone cover each other. Work can be messy but you learn alot.

if you are still young, i dont think the heavy workload will affect you.
it is just for you to pick up skill and have worklife balance in the future when you have family.

Age: 40
Job: In some foreign bank
Dept: Transaction banking (wholesale)
Role: Product
Salary: MYR40K
Bonus: 1-2 months

Hello, can share more if any other benefits and working experience?

Standard benefits as with most banks. 15 years of experience

I don't see posts from civil servants (if there is any - I might have missed that), so I'm just sharing mine here.

Job Title : College lecturer
Job Desciption : Teach and grade students, carry out and monitor various government policies.
Age : 33
Years spent in company : 8 years
Company : Kerajaan Malaysia, Kementerian XXX
Industry : Education
Tenure : Permanent (you get it after 3 years full time service with no disciplinary issues)
Employment Level : Professional group
Experience before joining (years) : 1
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Master's in teaching, joined with a degree in teaching.
Location : Borneo
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM4.5K + RM1.7K = RM6.2K
Contractual Bonus (months): -
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : -

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Full (only at government hospitals/clinics), extended to immediate family members and after retirement.
Transport Benefits : Claimable for working trips
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Nope. Only bosses get free phones and phone plans.
Flexi Working Hours : Can nego with boss.
Other Benefits : Government loans for just about everything with really low interest rates, guaranteed yearly bonuses (how much - depends on Finance Minister la), guaranteed full time scholarships (plus full salary) if you have the brains, full pension after retirement and claimable by spouses after death (not applicable for those opting for EPF), guaranteed promotion up to the highest professional level if you follow all the procedures.