No I didn't. Failed the BCG interview at the 2nd round some time back. I'm not going ahead with McKinsey after passing their PST back in May, I'm prioritizing on other things now.

if you must know, I'm an experienced hire and MBB typically hires at the consultant level only, let's ignore the partner level hires for now. Going in at that level is a step down in terms of responsibilities and salaries for me. Yes the McKinsey pedigree is nice, but I have a decent enough resume and I didn't want to take a pay cut.

Freelancing in the financial services industry while debating my next course of action ie. continue freelancing vs permanent job in Malaysia vs moving to another country to work there.

Anyway to get back on topic of salaries, for those freelancing and getting day rates, this is the formula I use to calculate annual/monthly salary.
Assuming your daily rate is RM1,000 per day to keep calculations easy, your annual salary is

(261 work days - 18 public holidays in MY - 25 days combined annual leave + MC) x RM1,400 = RM218,000
If your contracting company doesn't pay EPF, deduct 12% from that amount = RM192,000 (roughly) or about RM16,000 per month gross before taxes.

Suddenly that interesting RM1k per day rate doesn't look as attractive anymore 

but need to do project monitoring and most important is, all the info supplied to CEO must be very precise. my CEO very particular and coming from technical background. lucky got engineering experience.

Someone I know from one of the biggest bank in Malaysia get promoted to become a HOD for their Europe branch after serving the CEO for 3-4 years.

Company from big 4 (De*****) called me to offer position as Cloud Engineer (Azure)
I have total 3 years experience
Now working as Cloud System Engineer at Cloud Service provider with salry Rm3500/month
They asked me how much i expected?
What figure should i give?

3rd update at 5.5yrs exp

Job Title : Actuarial assistant manager
Job Desciption : Insurance Pricing
Age : 28
Years spent in company : around 5.5 Years
Company : Local Insurance Company
Industry : Insurance
Employment Level : AM
Experience before joining : 0 Experience
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Associate Actuary (ASA). One last 5 hours exam to become fully qualified actuary
Salary : 12.5k
Bonus : 2-3months
Average working hours : 9am to 7-8pm on non peak. If peak then around 10pm.
After working will spend at least one hour to study at home, weekend allocate at least 8 hours on studying for exams since I joined the industry. So life is basically work and exam with little social life. To make it worse, I am not a smart person and failed the same exam a few times.

which salary would you take monthly, 22k MYR to 10k SGD  ? assuming benefits and career aspiration are the same.

Hi do you have experience working in SG?

I was looking around the net to find the financial breakdown (less income tax, etc etc) for Malaysian working in SG, but still can't find a reliable ones.

Was thinking whether it is worth a shot to join a firm that offers 5K SGD vs 8K MYR.

Working in Malaysia, I can roughly calculate what is my net income, but working in SG is a bit hard as i don't know how much, in average, does decent renting, decent food and life usually costs with all those deductions. Plus I was wondering whether is it worth to forego EPF since working in SGD does not give you any pension benefits.

I wonder how did this SGD1500 is termed as average. Mind elaborating how did you arrive at this figure?

I see, you meant minimal cost of living in Singapore.

August 2017 - June 2019
Just accepted a new offer...

Job Title : Account Manager
Age : 27
Years spent in company : Just joined
Company : Global tech start-up
Industry : Data & tech
Tenure : Permanent hire
Employment Level : Manager
Experience before joining (years) : 3 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Master's degree
Location : Kuala Lumpur
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 35 hours
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM11,000 / month

Hi everyone, Selamat Hari Raya to everyone in this forum!

Job Title: Graduate Management Associate
Job Description: Rotational Basis
Age: 24
Years spent in company: Received offer, 0 at the moment
Company: International Bank
Tenure: Permanent
Employment Level: Executive
Experience before joining: Interned in a Big 4 under their advisory service line, servicing financial services & banking clients & a group finance role at a local GLC holding in Damansara.
Highest paper qualification/ education background: Bachelor's degree (hons.), majoring in Accountancy
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): in paper, 9am-6pm (Seniors in the program stated that you may be working late eg: 11pm in origination, DCM)

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance: 5k+
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months): HR to explain on On-boarding

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits: Annual Group Insurance, immediate family covered, free health checkups and dentals at panel clinics
Transport Benefits: Claimable if outstation
Food/Entertainment: Claimable if outstation
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Laptop provided
Flexi Working Hours: Rotation-Dependent
Other Benefits: Better tier credit cards (with full waivers incl for SST), preferential staff rate for personal loans, mortgage and auto finance, gym, employer sponsored PRS scheme (with portfolio options), standard annual leave, volunteer hours is convertible to leave days, MC cost & certification/online learning reimbursement.