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Job Title : Sr. Cloud Developer/Engineer
Job Desciption : Develop, automated and maintain cloud infra. I am a certified developer and solutions architect professional (Biggest public cloud)
Age : 30
Years spent in company : 0 (Joining this month)
Company : Major entertainment company (Sdn Bhd)
Industry : Entertainment
Tenure : 0
Employment Level : Senior
Experience before joining (years) : 5 🙂
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : Klang Valley
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM12k
Contractual Bonus (months): n/a
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : n/a

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Home Availability: Flexi
Annual Leaves: 20
Flexi Working Hours : Yes

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Family and dependents
Transport Benefits : n/a
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Yes
Other Benefits :

Future Prospects (personal outlook) - My company ticks a lot of my personal checkboxes esp in terms of family related benefits
Current salary against peers in industry - Dont know, probably at this level underpaid, but for my age is a good pay
Growth prospects - Plan to take up individual contributor role or technical program related roles within the next 5 years
Where I will go from here - Not planning to jump soon since its really difficult to find company with good family benefits

=============== PROMOTION IN APRIL 2021 ===========================

Job Title : Software Engineer
Job Desciption : Develop embedded system of frequency radio, working mainly on Bluetooth implementation and applications now. Dealing with every stake holder in the project.
Age : 27
Years spent in company : 4 years +
Company : MNC
Industry : Frequency Radio
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : Senior Engineer
Experience before joining (years) : First Company
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : Penang
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM5,000
Contractual Bonus (months): 1.5mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1mths + -

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical Card
Transport Benefits : none
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Internet claim RM90 per month
Flexi Working Hours : yes
Other Benefits : RM600 for glasses, dentistry and medical checkup, car loan interest subsidy
====================== ADJUSTMENT IN THE END OF 2021 =======================
Job Title : Software Engineer
Job Desciption : Develop embedded system of frequency radio, working mainly on Bluetooth implementation and applications now. Dealing with every stake holder in the project.
Age : 28
Years spent in company : 4 years ++
Company : MNC
Industry : Frequency Radio
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : Senior Engineer
Experience before joining (years) : First Company
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : Penang
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM5,900
Contractual Bonus (months): 1.5mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1mths + -

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical Card
Transport Benefits : none
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Internet claim RM90 per month
Flexi Working Hours : yes
Other Benefits : RM600 for glasses, dentistry and medical checkup, car loan interest subsidy
===================== UPDATE MAY 2022 : FIRST COMPANY JUMP ==================================
Job Title : Firmware Engineer
Job Description : FPGA firmware development and debug
Age : 29
Years spent in company : 1 week
Company : MNC
Industry: FPGA
Tenure: Permanent
Employment Level : Senior? I am not sure
Experience before joining (years) : 4 years 8 months
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Location : Penang
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM7,650
Contractual Bonus (months): 1.5mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : Annual bonus + Quarter bonus

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical Card
Transport Benefits : none
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Internet claim USD50 per month
Flexi Working Hours : yes
Other Benefits : RM800 for glasses, dentistry and medical checkup, car loan interest subsidy, stock options, many more I am not clear yet, still new here.
I have been targeting to have RM10k before age of 30, but seems like not possible for me now.
Time to set new target of RM15k before age of 35.

How do you guys think of my career path? Should I consider myself to go KL for higher salary? ( No Singapore jobs please I don't like SG )

Job Title : Event & Marketing
Job Desciption : Mostly office-bound work. Design, seek approval, deal with multiple departments like legal, finance, etc.
Years spent in company : 1 Year+
Age : 30
Industry : Retail
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 3 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : degree in Psychology / Mass Comm
salary : Close to RM4000 with 1 month bonus
Location: Selangor

Job Title : Event and Meetings
Job Desciption : Mostly office bound work. If there are events then might need to go out of office. Local or overseas
Years spent in company : Just started
Age : 32
Industry : MLM Company
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 5 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : degree in Psychology / Mass Comm
salary : Close to RM5000 in 2019, RM5400 in 2020, RM5700+ in 2021
Location: Selangor

Job Title : Training and Meeting
Job Desciption : Mostly office bound work. If there are events then might need to go out of office. Local or overseas
Years spent in company : 3 years
Age : 35
Industry : MLM Company
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 7 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : degree in Psychology / Mass Comm
Salary : RM6000 above
Location: Selangor

Job Title : Team Lead
Job Description : Lead work, 70% coding & 20% manage dev team & 10% manage client
Age : 31
Years spent in company : 2
Company : SME
Industry : Internet
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Lead
What I know: front-end, backend, system design & algorithms
Experience before joining (years) : 6
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Diploma
Location : WFH
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45hrs

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary : RM15,500
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1 months ++
Annual Leaves: 15
Working Hours : Standard

Benefits (where relevant): WFH

Usually I just surf lowyat garage sales as anonymous, decided to open an account here to share my career experience till I read this, hope will help someone with medium-low (diploma to high school) qualification, since nowadays master, degree or diploma+ is normal. Also please don't expect my reply because I not really an online socialise person and do have family to busy with.

Most of my life friends know my salary range, they always question and say you are genius, is so rare that someone can earn this range at your age especially you just diploma holder.
But the truth is, I don't think I'm that good, I've met very few people who do better than me, about twice or more than my salary range or have a successful startup.

Small advice & facts:
1. IT industry is lucky, average salary have soared in recent years due to market need.
2. Cert is just an entry ticket, of course I would like to continue further study (to get better privilege entry ticket) if able to afford a that time, important is to keep learning no matter in what situation, invest time in good book.
3. Seek for better opportunity is good, but don't just measure it in money. My ratio (money:time 70:30), there an offer around 20k++ years ago, but decide not to go since the extra few thousand after tax doesn't really can change much on current life style & cant WFH.
4. Stay hungry stay foolish, in case you get lay off you won't be so worried for next job
5. Labour is cheap, please study hard

Job Title : Mechanical Design Engineer
Job Desciption : Product design, 3D design, Parts Approval, Product & Parts Testing (IEC ISO Standard) and Project Management
Age : 24 ( 25 soon)
Years spent in company :11 months
Company : SME
Industry : Manucturing
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Entry level
Experience before joining (years) :0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours
Location : Shah Alam
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 51.25

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 3400
Contractual Bonus (months): 1.5 mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : n/a

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Home Availability: N/a
Annual Leaves: 7 days
Flexi Working Hours : Yes / No / Partial? No

Benefits (where relevant) : n/a
Health Benefits : mc 14 days
Transport Benefits :n/a
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits :n/a
Other Benefits :n/a

I have no idea if i am consider average or slightly lucky as this is just my first job. Can advise me if i am currently doing good? xD

Job Title : Interactive designer
Job Description : Digital design, UI/UX design, design prototyping
Age : 25
Years spent in company :5 months
Company : Digital design agency, Web and app dev
Industry : Tech
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Entry level
Experience before joining (years) :0
Highest paper qualification/ education background :Arts BA Hons Digital Design
Location : Damansara City
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 50
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 2800
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : subject to performance

Work Flexibility (where relevant) :
Work From Home Availability: hybrid
Annual Leaves: 14 days
Flexi Working Hours : Yes

Benefits (where relevant) : health insurance
Health Benefits : mc 14 days
Transport Benefits :n/a
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits :Company Macbook Pro
Other Benefits :n/a

How come AL only 7 days? I thought standard government law is 12 days?

Job Title : System Engineer
Job Description : Hardware installation and Software configuration
Age : 33
Years spent in company : 7
Company : GLC
Industry : IT-O&G
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining (years) : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor Degree
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40 + troubleshooting time

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 5000
Contractual Bonus (months): mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : depend on performance. maybe at least 3 mths

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Employee and dependent
Transport Benefits : None
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : 120
Flexi Working Hours : Yes
Other Benefits : Dental + optical (included in benefit), (travel allowance and offshore allowance)- when applicable

*now already move to other company with increment 80%

ob Title : Project / Bid Manager
Job Desciption : Supporting sales and bid team, Managing small service projects
Age : 38
Years spent in company :11 years
Company : MNC
Industry : Railway
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Senior
Experience before joining (years) :0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : MBA, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours
Location : PJ
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45-50

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM9596
Contractual Bonus (months): 1.5 months
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1 month minimum

Work Flexibility (where relevant) : Refer below
Work From Home Availability: Yes, to be applied prior
Annual Leaves: 30 days
Flexi Working Hours : Yes

Benefits (where relevant) : Group insurance including dependents
Health Benefits : MC 14 days
Transport Benefits :n/a
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits :RM1200 per year
Other Benefits :RM4300 yearly flexi benefits subject to tax

Not sure if i'm underpaid as currently we are in a niche industry.

Pay seems low but 30 days AL?

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

Just checked back my offer letter, only 10 days (less than 2 years). Will increase after 2 years.

Pay seems low but 30 days AL?