What type of analyst are you?
IT related such as NOC or SOC?

What's your core skillset?

In a way turn tech lingo to layman term in order stakeholder to understand what happened

Then my recommendation is to continuously brush up your technical skills. Make all your stakeholder recognize your capability.

Money and position will come eventually buddy 🙂

I love to do that, but I don't know which part that I can brush up better

You are a IT business analyst? As we are slowly transitioning into agile, maybe take a few product owner course to make the transition into a new role?

More towards real time analyst

I think you need to elaborate more on your own career. People are trying to help but you are dropping bits of info here and there.

You mentioned your core skillset is to "turn tech lingo to layman term in order stakeholder to understand what happened". You can put your core skillset into practice now 🙂

My apologies, my head not in right place

My current team : Incident Management Team

I'm the intermediary between BPO and engineer whenever an outage happened to related tools eg. Calls tools, chat tools, my task also providing insight to local stakeholders what happened.

I suggest you to see Malaysia Pay Gap (MPG) on Instagram. high and low salaries are posted there

Job Title : Staff Engineer
Job Desciption : Works on Siemens Camstar/Opcenter development and maintenance
Age : 28
Years spent in company : 8 months
Company : MNC
Industry : semicond
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Senior Level
Experience before joining (years) : 6 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : Penang
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45 hrs

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 7.5k
Contractual Bonus (months): 1 month (13 month salary)
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 0-2 months performance bonus

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Hom4 Availability: every Friday
Annual Leaves: 14 days
Flexi Working Hours : -

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical n life insurance , health screening, dental & optical for immediate family
Transport Benefits : -
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : 500 claim every 3 yrs, monthly mobile bill claim 150
Other Benefits : mental health consultation,ESPP stock options , paternity & compassionate leave,etc

This post has been edited by MKCL: Nov 21 2024, 10:20 AM

So, How are you now after almost three year (Its 2024 now)...??

I used to think like you. My dad last time was only earning 5k many year back and had 260k in EPF so when i was earning 11k when i was 31 year old, i though I've done well. My target then was 5 figures at 30 year old, own a Camry and a landed property in KL. I manage to achieve all these. Questions is whats next?

Honestly sky is the limit. Now at slightly above 40 year old, I've 3 cars including BMW, Mini and Proton and own a semid, earning 33k monthly and 1M in EPF.

Believe in yourself and set a higher target

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This post has been edited by kkkw80: Dec 2 2024, 11:11 AM

how much did you spend on house actually?

Crossing the junction of needing buy a house myself, just want to have some reference how other spend although my earning not as much as you.

Age 21 bought my 1st property condo 170k, sold it few years later 470k. 2nd bought a landed terrace DSL 400k, sold it later 700k. Now owned a semid bought then 1.67m and now it’s worth 2.6m. This is besides 300k Reno and furnitures etc cost on top.

Don’t depend only on your salary to own a nice house, let the property appreciated price over different stages help you.

entry associates 3.7k
manager 10k
senior manager 15k

all figures are starting points with +/- at each firm but are around there
they look better now since the revision around late 2022.

Job Title : Regional Lead, Cybersecurity DFIR
Job Desciption : Police, Detective, Firefighter, Medics within digital realm
Age : 29
Years spent in company : 1.5years
Company : F500 MNC
Industry : Retail, Manufacturing, E-Comm
Tenure : Perm
Employment Level : Manager
Experience before joining (years) : 4.5 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree + multiple professional certificates
Location : SG
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 42 - 50 hours

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : ~SGD 11k
Contractual Bonus (months): 1 Month
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1.5 - 3 months

Future Prospects (personal outlook) :
Current salary against peers in industry : Average, with several other peers earning as much as SGD17k/mth
Growth prospects :Not much room for growth for this role within the firm, especially when leadership view you as a sunken cost center within the sea of back offices. Exploring local opportunities or commit full time with side venture (local consultancy service).
Where I will go from here : Senior Management / Leadership role within APAC or commit full time with side venture (local consultancy service).

Job Title : Frontend Developer (L2)
Job Desciption : Creating Web UI with React Typescript
Age : 31
Years spent in company : 2 years 3 months
Company : software development company
Industry : IT
Tenure : Perm
Employment Level : mid-level
Experience before joining (years) : 1.5 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : Selangor
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 5.9k
Contractual Bonus (months): 1 mth
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : increment 1-3% a year

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Home Availability: 4 days in a month
Annual Leaves: 15 days
Flexi Working Hours : No

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : 1200/year on clinical visits for medicine and vaccinations
Transport Benefits : inclusive in the fixed allowance. 450
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : They provide a laptop and whatever devices needed for projects
Other Benefits : - 500 a year on optical/dental
- Client side parking claimable

Started late into the tech industry.
Asking on whether should I start looking out

Job Title: Staff Engineer, Mobile
Job Description: Working closely with product managers to implement new product features for Android app
Age: 29
Years spent in the company: 5 years
Company: Fintech
Industry: IT
Tenure: Full-time permanent
Employment Level: senior level
Experience before joining (years): 1 year
Highest paper qualification/ education background: Degree
Location: KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance: RM13,000. Allowance RM325
Contractual Bonus (months): <= 1 month
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months): Increment 3-5% per year (hearsay from my colleague). Guess I'm the outlier, increment every >= 30% based on performance

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Home Availability: 3 days office 2 days home
Annual Leaves: 15 days
Flexi Working Hours: Yes, as long as you complete your job

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits: Clinic outpatients but I have forgotten how much. Probably >=RM500
Transport Benefits: Included in the fixed allowance. 250
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits: They provide a laptop for you to work, and an RM75 fixed allowance
Other Benefits: - RM250 a year on dental


Future Prospects (personal outlook) :
Current salary against peers in the industry: Guess I'm average within my circle and industry. But definitely has more upside
Growth prospects: Already plateaued in my current company, both in position and skills set.


Where I will go from here: Thinking of jumping ship now. So there were 2 offers to me, but I'm still thinking about which can propel me to the next level for growth (gaining valuable skills and knowledge, not so much monetary although its added bonus).

So seeking all the sifu-sifu here, have any suggestions or advice for me? Thanks in advance! 🙏

Offer 1:
- Career Growth: Still can climb the corporate ladder, but it’s challenging due to being a large MNC. Can work across different technical stacks, but I need to ensure it doesn’t affect my existing responsibilities.
- Work Culture: More stringent SOPs and an older workforce.
- Offer: Basic RM12,000/month
1-month annual wage supplement
Bonus: ~2 months (assumed)
EPF: 15% employer contribution
- Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days in office at KLCC; may become 5 days/week).

[B]Offer 2:
- Career Growth: Flat hierarchy; no corporate ladder. No promotion opportunities, just performance-based increments. No chance to work across different technical stacks because the company needs a senior backend to lead the team.
- Work Culture: Lax SOPs, younger and more energetic environment.
Offer: Basic RM14,000/month
Bonus: Maximum 1 month
EPF: 12% employer contribution
- Work Arrangement: Fully remote (office visits optional)

impressive and you are above average at least I would say, will go for offer 1 as you are at the age to grow/gain further. Look into annual package for both to compare side by side