Average salary in Malaysia: MYR 2,933 a month (ILOSTAT, 2020)
Mean monthly earnings of employees in Malaysia: MYR 2,933 a month (2020, ILOSTAT). By occupation, managers earn the most and skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers the least.
ILOSTAT reports mean monthly earnings of employees of MYR 2,933 a month for 2020 (ILOSTAT EAR_EMTA_SEX_OCU_NB (ES - Salaries and Wages Survey), 2020). Employment definition: Excluding own-use production workers Job coverage: Main job currently held Working time arrangement coverage: Full-time equivalents A mean is skewed upward by top earners; the typical employee earns less.
The occupation split (ILOSTAT EAR_EMTA_SEX_OCU_NB, 2020) runs from MYR 6,479 a month for managers to MYR 1,547 for skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers. These are broad ISCO-08 groups, not individual job titles.
Malaysia shows about 1.4% CPI in 2025 (World Bank Open Data), with GDP per capita about US$13,125. We do not yet publish role-level medians for Malaysia, so there are no per-job pages here.
What we can say about pay in Malaysia today
Treat MYR 2,933 a month as a national reference point, not an offer benchmark. Official averages blend every sector, age, and hours pattern. Compare a real offer with the occupation group that matches it, then run the take-home and cost of living calculators.