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Salary comparison Malaysia

See where your monthly pay sits against the government pay scale for your scheme and grade, the DOSM figures for your industry and state, and what the Industrial Court has recorded for similar jobs.

Quick answer: Malaysia publishes no pay distribution by job, so this check places your pay on three published scales: the SSPA salary scale for the matching government scheme (minimum, starting point, yearly increment, maximum), DOSM's median and mean salary for your industry and state, and the middle 50% of last-drawn pay in Industrial Court awards for the nearest job family.

MalaysiaSSPA scale, Budget 2026 · DOSM 2024 and 2025 · Industrial Court 2019 to 2025Saved without name, email or IP

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Use your basic monthly pay before deductions. Allowances are compared separately where the government pays fixed ones.

Pick the scheme closest to your job, even if you work in the private sector. The scale is the public-service benchmark for that work.
Optional, for a closer comparison

What you add here is kept without your name, email or IP address and appears only in grouped figures, so these pages can show private-sector pay by job over time, which no official source publishes for Malaysia. Privacy notice.

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How the comparison works

Malaysia has no published pay distribution by job, so the check uses three published yardsticks instead of a percentile.

  • On the government scale, each scheme and grade has a minimum, a starting point for new entrants, a yearly increment (KGT) and a maximum, from the SSPA salary scale in Budget 2026.
  • Your pay is placed between the starting point and the maximum, and the gap is expressed in yearly increments.
  • The DOSM Salaries and Wages Survey gives the median and mean monthly salary of paid employees by industry (2024) and by state (2025, citizens). These cover all jobs in the industry or state, so they describe the market around you, not your job.
  • Industrial Court awards published from 2019 to 2025 record the last-drawn pay of dismissed employees. Grouped into job families with 20 or more awards, they give a middle 50% for experienced private-sector staff. They lean towards senior and long-serving people.

How to use your result

  • Pay below the figures for your job is a fair basis to ask for a review, with the published figure as evidence.
  • If you are in line or above, results and new skills are the case for more. Compare total pay, including allowances, before moving.
  • In government jobs, your grade and step set your pay. Promotion to the next grade is the main way it rises.
  • Ask for a pay rise with the salary increment letter, or compare a new offer with the job offer comparison calculator.

Common questions

I work in the private sector. Which scheme should I pick?

The scheme whose work matches yours: an engineer picks Jurutera J9, an accountant Akauntan WA9, a software developer Pegawai Teknologi Maklumat F9. The government scale is then a benchmark, and the DOSM and court figures describe private pay around it.

What is saved when I check?

The scheme, age band, pay and any optional detail you give, with the country and time. No name, email, IP address, device or visitor id. If you ask for the PDF report, your email is kept separately with that report request (scheme, age band and pay). The privacy notice has the details.

Do the government figures include allowances?

The scale is basic pay. Where a scheme has fixed allowances (ITP, ITKA, BISH, BIPK), the check shows the starting pay with allowances in Kuala Lumpur as a separate figure.

Where do the figures come from?

DOSM's Salaries and Wages Survey for pay by job group and industry, and the Ministry of Finance pay scale and JPA allowance circulars for government jobs.

Sources

SSPA pay scale, DOSM, Industrial Court
  1. Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam: scheme requirements and starting pay by qualification, 2026.
  2. Ministry of Finance, Budget 2026 establishment list, Lampiran A: SSPA salary codes and minimum to maximum salaries.
  3. JPA, Pekeliling Perkhidmatan 1/2024, Lampiran E: fixed allowances by grade and area.
  4. DOSM, Salaries and Wages Survey Report 2024, Exhibit 5 (industry); Salaries and Wages Statistics 2025 (state, citizens).
  5. Industrial Court of Malaysia, awards 2019 to 2025, grouped by Foundific into job families of 20 or more awards.