I wrongly quote my own post, see above reply

thanks bro...seems like i'm way underpaid, time to nego!

By the way, I see you have yearly flexi allowances, may I know what are those? What is the annual increment % like? Just for benchmark purpose

The yearly flexi allowances can be used for lifestyle related purchases ie. personal car maintenance, road tax, purchase of sports equipment, or even for hotel/accommodation claim when you go for holidays

Annual increment is average 3-5% for most employees.

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).

Job Title : Mobile Developer
Job Desciption : Develop mobile apps
Age : 27
Company : MNC
Years spent in company : 1 month
Industry : Fintech
Experience before joining (years) : 4 years 3 months
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree IT
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 46 hours - 50 hours
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM6,500
Annual Leaves: 21 days
Health Benefits : RM1,000

I'm about to get a probation review, just wonder if my salary is underpaid or average ?

This post has been edited by Thestrangers: Jun 18 2022, 05:38 PM

I know a dotnet software developer who has been working in the field for > 10 years and he get around rm6-7k as a project leader. And he is nearly 40 yo. Your salary is very high considering you are below 30yo only.

I don't like to say this but why is age related to pay? That's the most common way of HR lowballing talents.

Well, i guess, when your age is older, basically meant you have more experiences, when you have more experienced higher chance meaning you know more things, thus you might get higher salary. Many HR might take this as a factor to gauge what they should pay the candidate besides those certificates, past works, etc. I think that makes sense.

My case here was talking about coders, i think a coder who just worked for 1-2 years or totally no work experiences can get very high salary too, just show the company / HR the works they have done while in school / free time, show the company / HR how much knowledges they have and why they are qualified for high paid. Last time i played a game called "Runescape", the creator of the game, before he graduated already had many companies offering him super high paid hoping he could join their companies.

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 🙏🏻

HR aren't your best friend. They are just some bloodsucker lowballing.

I would recommend that you comb through the data which @MalaysianPayGap shared

Here is the data dashboard
https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting...ge/p_y00cuqsxsc

Good for you my friend! I also 2021 graduated from Taruc Setapak as Mechanical Engineering Degree student. Now work in Subang Bestari as kuli. Maybe i can take your path as reference. xD

Don't be too upset if you can't reach his path & salary. Coming from the software path, I'm confident to say 90% software graduates won't reach that by 30.

Hello there! Congrats on your graduation, I suppose Dr Seow may have added you and your coursemates to our FB Group for RME/RMT/RMH/REE/RTE graduates. I still see active job postings in that FB group, but the pay vs workload for most engineers really demotivating for many juniors, unless they are in Oil&Gas or semicon industry.

Everyone has different path, you will eventually find and pave the best one for yourself.

Hi. Thank you for the cheer up senior xD. Ya Dr. Seow did constantly post new jobs in the fb group and like what you mentioned the pay vs workload really seems to be imbalance. So, I Plan to move to new field in next year. Still thinking if i should stay in R&D related to mechanical parts or should change to IT field. I think it is harder to find SME that help in engineering growth path. But since my result was someway around CGPA 2.96++. I don have that confident to apply in MNC company. :/ I got consider moving to Penang and start in semicon industry specially like Vitrox.

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.

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This post has been edited by mazai5100: Jun 29 2023, 11:16 PM

Job Title : IT Consultant
Job Description : Technical Manager/Software Engineering Consultant
Age : 28
Years spent in company : 7
Company : MNC
Industry : Consulting
Tenure : 7
Employment Level : Associate Manager
Experience before joining (years) : 1
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Engineering related diploma.
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40 hours but really depends on the project, it could be less, it could be more.

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM10,625
Contractual Bonus (months): 0 mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1-2mths

Work Flexibility (where relevant) : WFH / Hybrid. Usually only need to go to the office for in-person client meetings etc.
Work From Home Availability: 20 days in a month
Annual Leaves: 21 days
Flexi Working Hours : No

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical + Life Insurance
Transport Benefits : None unless claimable via project budget. (Depends on project)
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : RM2400 annual mobile allowance, RM5000 Gadget/Holiday allowance
Other Benefits :

Future Prospects (personal outlook) : I can see myself getting promoted another 1 or 2 more levels before I feel the growth becomes stagnant.
Current salary against peers in industry : Average
Growth prospects : Good room for growth
Where I will go from here : Project/Technical Delivery Manager or similar role..