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)

I'm not sure what's your career progression path but in my case its something like this:
Analyst -> Engineer -> Architect

Do your role have any certification you can take?
Exam is one good way to gain knowledge and show your employer you are ready to take additional responsibility

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

Why your offer is less than 10% increment than your current salary range? you need to better nego your salary or else they take advantage on you. Understand you prefer to career growth, but you need to take serious matter on your monetary value (based on your exp + skillset).

Are you a solution/data architect now? What will be expected pay range?

Job Title: E-Comm Product Owner, Treasury
Job Description: Working closely with traders and sales team (Treasury) to offer products (FX/IRS/SI) to internal / external clients
Age: 32
Years spent in the company: 3 years
Company: Banking
Industry: IT
Tenure: Full-time permanent
Employment Level: senior level
Experience (years): 10 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background: Degree
Location: Singapore
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40

Monetary payout - SGD13.5K

Previously working in MY for about RM20K. I am super glad that i took the number cut and come to SG.

I can rent a nice 2 bedder condo, eat decent food, and still save 20k myr a month (around 6k sgd).

I tried applied for SG jobs for years, it's hard to get any job especially >10K sgd job

Job Title: IT Security Analyst
Job Description: Basically find security flaws in system
Age: 29
Years spent in the industry: 4 years
Company: Software Solution
Industry: IT/Software Solution
Tenure: Full-time permanent
Employment Level: Senior level
Job History: Company A (2020-2022) RM2800
Job History: Company B (2022-2023) RM4000
Job History: Company C (2023-2025) RM7600
Highest paper qualification/ education background: Degree
Location: KL
Working Hours: Normal Shift (9AM-6PM)
Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance: RM6800.000. Allowance RM800
Pros: Can WFH, rarely need enter office. Cons: No bonus / increment.
Currently looking for new job but too hard to find company that willing to pay higher.

Job Title : Digital Design Verification Engineer (DV)
Job Desciption : R&D; Networking IC; RTL/Formal Verification.
Age : 27
Years spent in company : 1
Company : Taiwanese MNC
Industry : IC design / semicon front-end
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Junior Engineer
Experience before joining (years) : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Master
Location : Taiwan
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): around 50 hours

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : around RM12k (depends on exchange rate)
Contractual Bonus (months): 1 mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : ranging from 4-12 mths or more

Work Flexibility (where relevant) : flexi hours, occasional OT depends on project phase
Work From Home Availability: No
Annual Leaves: 10 days
Flexi Working Hours : Partial. Fixed working day with flexi starting time.

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : medical insurance, annual health checkup, mental counseling
Transport Benefits : -
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : -
Other Benefits : around RM1.5k welfare fund per annum (for education/sports/insurance), legal consultation

Others:
- no epf since working overseas
- pay less tax compared to Malaysia for this salary range (but may pay more when salary grows)

Future Prospects (personal outlook) :
Current salary against peers in industry : Above Average
Growth prospects : From what I heard, pay raise above average but promotion is pretty difficult.
Where I will go from here : Either continue working overseas in Taiwan/other countries and jump to other MNC or relocate back to MY/SG.
How's the pay/benefits of similar role in Malaysia (Intel/Oppstar/Infinecs?) ? What about similar opportunity in Singapore?
My parents would prefer me to work closer to home but at this career stage, I would priorities career building. What's your thoughts?

It's tax season again, figured I should do another update:

Years spent in company : <2
Increment: 4%
Total pay before tax y.2024: ~NT$1.5 mil (~RM200k at current rate)

As of the current state, I would stay unless things changes back home. Even moving to Singapore would not  result in a substantive gain factoring in the living costs.
The downsides are the Mandarin dominated environment, no EPF for 2 more years, and infrequent family visits.

Ur salary vs cost of living?

The bulk would be rental?

Job Title: E-Comm Product Owner, Treasury
Job Description: Working closely with traders and sales team (Treasury) to offer products (FX/IRS/SI) to internal / external clients
Age: 32
Years spent in the company: 3 years
Company: Banking
Industry: IT
Tenure: Full-time permanent
Employment Level: senior level
Experience (years): 10 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background: Degree
Location: Singapore
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40

Monetary payout - SGD13.5K

Previously working in MY for about RM20K. I am super glad that i took the number cut and come to SG.

I can rent a nice 2 bedder condo, eat decent food, and still save 20k myr a month (around 6k sgd).

Mind sharing more on why did you decide to go? My 20k should nett you 14.5k, and if you stay in KL, monthly expenses should be 4.5k. You should be able to save RM 9-10k while likely having a better quality of life. In SG you do save about double, but I believe that comes at slightly lower quality of life?

Mind sharing more on why did you decide to go? My 20k should nett you 14.5k, and if you stay in KL, monthly expenses should be 4.5k. You should be able to save RM 9-10k while likely having a better quality of life. In SG you do save about double, but I believe that comes at slightly lower quality of life?

MY 20k nets me around 14k.
Condo was around 3.2k
Car was around 1.5k. (3 series second hand)
Other stuff comes in around 5-8k.
Every month i was saving 2-3k myr

SG 13.5k nets me around 12.5k (no cpf for ep holders)
Condo was 4.3k
No car, take mrt
Other expenses comes in at around 2k
Splurge on food comes in around 1k a month
I currently save about 3-5k a month (10-17k myr)

The only thing that really changes is that you gotta take the mrt.
Which i am ok with.

I find it hard to believe that you spend only SGD 2k to get what you spend RM 5k - 8k. There is certainly a lifestyle change. Plus, for Condo that you spend RM 3.2k here, that's should be quite a nice condo. You should be bale to downgrade to make things comparable with SG.

Plus, you get a BMW 3 series here. There are cheaper cars.

MY 20k nets me around 14k.
Condo was around 3.2k
Car was around 1.5k. (3 series second hand)
Other stuff comes in around 5-8k.
Every month i was saving 2-3k myr

SG 13.5k nets me around 12.5k (no cpf for ep holders)
Condo was 4.3k
No car, take mrt
Other expenses comes in at around 2k
Splurge on food comes in around 1k a month
I currently save about 3-5k a month (10-17k myr)

The only thing that really changes is that you gotta take the mrt.
Which i am ok with.