Hi tech consultant seniors,

May I know what’s the most suitable pay range for Test Manager in consulting firm (MNC)? Their client is global bank. I want to make sure I’m not getting lowballed anymore.

I have 6 years of experience in software QA testing including testing management and my qualification is Degree in IT and MBA.

Really appreciate your advice 🙏🏻

3.8k to 6k for a promotion. that's incredibly rare, the usual rate is usually 20-30%.

and what does it feel like to jump ship every year? 

How do you answer interview questions on switching jobs frequency? I get them a lot even though I don't switch as often as you. Can't imagine what kind of creative answers I would have to dig out if in your position.

In my humble opinion, we sometimes shall look at the absolute value too rather than just the %, because % doesn't give big number when the principal value is low..
In my case, I see it as a RM 2.2K gained for the promotion, instead of the % I gained. 

Hi all, sharing my progression here as a dotnet software developer.
My background is not IT but I started my career in IT as a software developer.
I am a Mechanical Engineering degree graduate from TARUC (Setapak).

My monthly gross salary in RM (not including allowances, only base) progression:
2016 (started in Dec): 3K
2017: 3.3K (confirmation) -> 3.6K
2018: 3.8K -> 6K (promotion)
2019: 6.5K
2020: 6.7K -> 8.1K (new job)
2021: 10K (new job)
2022: 16K (new job)

Sorry for the soooo abstracted information, just in case my colleague will see my post here.
A bit more context, all these are in Malaysia, I'm not doing remote job and converting currency (some people like to convert, for example from SGD to MYR as their earning).

Sharing this for the benefits of other software developers, there are a few companies I know that they could afford RM 10K monthly for people who have less than 5 years of working experience.

The annual bonus I got from these companies is average 1.5 months.
I am grateful with what I have now at my current age (below 30 years old).

mind to tell which employee rank are you in for the rm 16k position?

from my impression, usually >15k are either team lead or at least a senior in tech field, where one is expected to lead some projects

come to my surprise that dotnet still highly sought after now

Hi there, yes, you are right, it’s a senior role but not a team lead yet.

IMHO, dotnet and Java are still considered highly sought (the amount of job ads on LinkedIn and JobStreet, search by keyword) especially in enterprise-grade app development. These two are usually easier to get higher pay bracket (median) compared to others (Python & JavaScript are in great demand too).

After all, they are just different tools for different purposes. It shouldn’t take much time for a developer to work on and get comfortable with other modern languages as most of their programming knowledge are probably still applicable, except some may take more time to be proficient like Rust, F#, ProLog etc. depending on his/her background. But yea, I think you get my point. Haha.

wow, a 60% increase in basic salary after 1 year in the previous job? too good to be true especially for a developer.

80% increment??? Did you edit your payslips when applying for new job?

anyone knows what is the ballpark figure for Manager M4 rank in HLB?

Sent you a PM

It’s actually less than a year in my previous job.
After all, it’s about the right opportunity and the right talent at the right timing.

I do understand some may find it difficult to believe if they haven’t seen one before. My peers (mostly in E&E and mechanical engineering in semi-con) were quite surprise when they found out I change job again and with a decent package. They are having exactly same years of working experience like me (roughly 5.5 years), and making RM50-80K annually on average.

For me, I mostly look at the career opportunities (progress/advancement) in long run at the company when I make my decision, not the monetary part.

wise choice, e&e pay is just crap as its heavily depend on export. with export, the salary is tie to the product price. garbage in garbage out, e@e and manufacturing is a sign of failure when our cost of living increase. they can move the factory to cheaper country

You sound exactly like one of my friends in the industry..
And another common struggle they face is, other than some soft skills and electronic knowledge, most of their skillsets are deeply tied to their production line, like the machines etc. It's not something really transferable if they were to change company, hence looking out could be challenging.

One (5Y working experience) of my friends took a pay cut early this year to be a web developer, from a PCB engineer (in a well known Japanese brand). Original pay is still lesser than RM4K per month, the web developer role is RM3.2K or RM3.3K monthly (sorry can't remember). I guess he rather be considered as a fresh grad in developer role than continue his current career.

And yea, you are right, it is really sad. In Malaysia, probably because of many companies are not giving our engineers R&D work..? From what I read in the JD (my graduates FB group), seems to be mostly maintenance & sales work.

Malaysia

I got paid in crypto 😎

I paid my taxes myself as I billed the project as consultant

Since the crypto market is down, did the companies adjust your salary accordingly? For example, if the company has agreed to pay you 1eth per month. At that time, 1eth=3k USD, but now 1eth=1k USD. So, will the companies pay you 3eth now to compensate for the eth price drop, or are you still getting 1eth?

I got paid in usdt and usdc

So no worries about market dump

Stablecoins? Scary stuffs

as someone not from IT background, I certainly feel salty about the pays from this industry...