Yeah. I'm just curious about Leo's income since he mentioned his one is relatively high. 😝

Job Title : Fullstack Developer
Job Desciption : Code, Build product, Bug fixes, Web3, little bit Backend Deployment & Linux configurations on aws and many more.
Age : 25
Years spent in company : 9 months and counting
Company : Software as a services
Industry : IT
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Junior
Experience before joining (years) : 6 months
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor's with Honours
Location : Startup Company founded in New York, CEOs Malaysian
Average Working Hours Per Week: 48+- (Sometimes I commit on weekend to solve bugs)

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 4500+0
Contractual Bonus (months): None, But can have company token shares
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) :

Work Flexibility (where relevant) : Total work from home.
Work From Home Availability: Full
Annual Leaves: 14 days
Flexi Working Hours : Flexible but must achieve 8 hours

Future Prospects (personal outlook) :
Current salary against peers in industry : rm6-7k
Growth prospects: Close to as chief tech should do, understanding the flow of agile management, deployment and Web3 blockchain services.
Where I will go from here : Before I hop into a company, I am confidence with my knowledge in most of the prospects, I do not ask help from seniors, but I keep our communication in line so we all know what we needed to do. I am aiming to have leadership role.

Job Title : Maintenance Planner
Job Description : Power plant maintenance planning
Age : 31
Years Spent in Company: 0 year
Industry : O&G
Tenure : 3 year Contract
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining (years) : 8 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : B. Eng
Location : Doha
Average Working Hours : 12 hours/day

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary: 5.5k USD (No tax)
Contractual Bonus (months) : N/A

Benefits (where relevant) : Family medical, dental, medical screening, flight once a year, paid holiday, children education, 3k USD housing Allowance
Transport Benefits : 3k car allowance

Landed this job and visa just settle off. Jumped from o&g operator (small one) doing few different field of planning.

I’m glad listen to people’s advise to stay and target jump to middle east operator. So I stayed here although received different offers from MNC Contractor, namely S and T. Only moved from one operator to other.

Wish can join earlier so that can watch world cup but need to serve 2 month notice period.

Sharing my career progress as SHO.

2013 - Associate - construction: 2K
2014 - Executive - facility management: 3.4K
2019 - Executive - manufacturing: 5K
2021 - Sr Executive - facility management: 7K
2022 - Executive - logistic: 9.5K (current)

Job Title : EHS Executive
Job Desciption : Environmental, Health and Safety
Age : 32
Years spent in company : 6 months
Industry : Logistic
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Sr Executive
Experience before joining (years) : 10
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Master's
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45hrs

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM9,500 + 0
Contractual Bonus (months): none
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 2 mths average

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Home Availability: Nil
Annual Leaves:20 days
Flexi Working Hours : No

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Outpatient RM5k p.a
Transport Benefits : Nil
Mobile / Internet / Gadget / Sports Benefits : RM4k p.a (claim basis)
Other Benefits : RM500 e-wallet per month

Future Prospects (personal outlook) :
Current salary against peers in industry : Not too sure.
Where I will go from here : Jump after 1-2 years. Managerial position. Kumpul duit, pencen.

Not bad. Almost 5 figure

Hi, I'm just sharing the offer that I got in one of Oil and gas company somewhere in middle east country. Unfortunately, I decline the offer due to personal and family reason - need to relocated to the country. Just share it here on what I got.

******* DISCLAIMER: *Value is converted into MYR* ********

Job Title : System Engineer
Job Description : Supporting plant information system within the company (maybe focusing on upstream) - because I've seen there is other position which support their manufacturing (downstream business)
Age : 33
Years spent in company : NA
Company : Oil and Gas
Industry : Oil and gas
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Senior level
Experience before joining (years) : 7
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor degree in IT
Location : Middle East
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): standard hours (42 per week)

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : MYR 22,300 (Base salary) + MYR 2350 (Transport) + MYR14100 (Housing)
Contractual Bonus (months): N/A
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : depend on performance

Work Flexibility (where relevant) : Yes
Work From Home Availability: Not sure
Annual Leaves: 38 days
Flexi Working Hours : Maybe

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : A lot, will not go on by one but it is really great
Transport Benefits : MYR 2350
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits :
Other Benefits : House - MYR 14,100 (monthly)
School for kids (per head, per year) - MYR 52700 (primary) and MYR43500 (pre school) - additional allowance for book, and school transport
Free flight ticket for the whole family once per year to home country - (you could also use it to travel anywhere as they just give a cash and not monitoring where u spend it)
Other benefit - small2 one. But it is great
If salary plus allowance, can get up to MYR40K per month. But of course cost of living there is also high

Future Prospects (personal outlook) :
Current salary against peers in industry : I think it is average for expatriate package
Growth prospects : Not sure as I decline it
Where I will go from here : Technical principle, control system, ICS Cyber security - or any role related to level 3- operational technology
* The package above is for married. There are also different package for married but went there alone and single package

This post has been edited by ahms89: Dec 31 2022, 03:45 PM

Middle East later is syndicate smuggle you to Cambodia or Myanmar.

Nope.. the one that i got is legit.. i apply though company website.. and went through 2 stage interview. Did not apply through any agent..

Bro mind share ur current salary here in Msia, wonder how much you make that can decline such offer

Interesting. Mind sharing the personal reasons you turn down the offer ? Safety ? High risks ? Thanks. I'm always curious with overseas job offers.

It is purely family reason. was casually looking and went to the interview.. will definitely apply again in future.

Alhamdulillah.. still manage to get 5 figure salary in Malaysia even though it is not as high as what they offered.. But surely will apply again in future once the family is stable and proper migration plan (my wife also working and some other family matter which prohibit me to migrate at the moment .. btw, it is oil and gas company in Qatar

This post has been edited by ahms89: Dec 31 2022, 03:42 PM

I understand. Yes family is important too. Some jobs abit risky & complicated

Malaysia would be negara maju already if all these were true. Everyone easily 10k above even before 30y.o.

Yes. It's possible. But maybe with chicken rice at rm20 per plate. Char koay teow rm20 per plate. Just like overseas HK for example high salary but high costs of living as well.

Usually only the ones making a comfortable buck are the ones comfortable sharing their earning here....

I can give you example. Government servants. I have a frenemy currently Gred UF52 something like that ketua penolong Pengarah kanan bla bla bla etc. So I was stalking his FB. Omg he knows it's me. He has all the free time in the world to private all his public posts from many many years ago so I can't view them. So much free time he got. Sometimes I wonder if the tax money I paid is being used to pay his salary, perks, allowance, bonus etc etc. Omg.

Okay guys, try not to divert from the topic too much. Thank you.

Sharing my IT career path since 21y/o, degree holder

2011 - 2013 programmer 2200
2014 - 2016 IT consultant 4000 - 8000
2017 - 2018 Project manager 9600 - 12000
2019 - 2020 Head 15000 - 18000
2021 - current C level 47600

Never give up and don't burn the bridge work from home since day 1 Malaysia MCO till now. No plan back to office yet.

One thing I see consistently in malaysians earning high salary here is either they work in IT or Oil and gas.

If you're in boomer industries like mechanical engineering, working in kilang somewhere then jangan haraplah.