Job Title : Senior Process Engineer
Job Desciption : Takes care of die attach process in semiconductor industry.
Age : 29
Years spent in company : 3
Company : MNC
Industry : Semiconductor
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Senior Engineer
Experience before joining (years) : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Masters in Engineering Science
Location : Melaka
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM5,000
Contractual Bonus (months): NA
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : Average 2.8 mths

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Full insurance coverage
Transport Benefits : NA
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : 20GB internet data and unlimited call
Flexi Working Hours : NA
Other Benefits : Yearly RM800 claimable for certain spending likes gym and etc.

My questions:
1. Am I underpaid in this industry?
2. Is semiconductor even a good industry to work in to get high salary, compared to other industries like sales and software engineering?
3. I work in this company for 3 years + so far, should I hop more in order to increase my salary?
4. Anyone from semiconductor industry who has very good salary can share how to gain more? Is it by hopping more oftenly?
5. Is it partly because of my location is in Melaka and hence the salary is low? Who else is from Penang / KL semiconductor industry and do you mind to share your salary information here?

Thanks!

This post has been edited by ontherise: Feb 7 2019, 01:42 AM

Hi guys, thanks for the input. So does semiconductor industry have good salary prospect in long term? Thanks!

This post has been edited by ontherise: Feb 7 2019, 09:53 AM

Thanks for your insight man. Yes I do notice that in terms of salary, bonus and commission semiconductor cannot compete with O&G one, but O&G has bigger economic fluctuation also lah. How about engineering sales? From what I see engineering sales basic salary is already quite high, on top of that they have lots of commissions some more.

Nope Mr. Genius, I continued with my full time Masters degree (fully research) after I have finished my Bachelor's degree and that's why I started to work at 25. But I get it, that some people need to belittle others to make themselves feel superior.

Good for you bro. Mine is engineering Masters degree and most of the local and private universities only look for PhD holders nowadays. It's going to take a few more years (if things go smoothly lah) to get PhD and until then I will be closed to my 30's already lol.

Your reply looks like a sarcasm to my late start in career at first, my apology to you too if that's not what you meant. Peace.

I was worried about being a little bit late to start my career at that time too, and it really did give me some pressures when I joined the industry since everyone else around my age already got something but I was just about to start. But I think of this this way, that career is not a sprint but it's more like a marathon, and being late 2 years to start my career is insignificant in the long run (we are talking about a career of 20 years, 30 years...). Acquiring a research based Masters degree might also give me another option to join academia if one day I feel tired working in this fast paced semiconductor industry.

I worked quite hard in the past 3 years and eventually got something, even though compared to many people here on Lowyat my pay is still considered as low lah, but I am willing to take some advices here about semiconductor field and whether to jump ship or not.

This post has been edited by ontherise: Feb 12 2019, 11:50 PM