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Table 3-3: Total labour cost per full-time employee per month (national level)
Malaysians
Expatriates and PR
Foreign workers
Wage Cost (RM)
Basic wage
3,100 12,975 1,105
456 1,913 237
Commission 1,183 4,071 73
OT payment 390 461 500
EPF and SOCSO 494 1,934 N/A
Other pension fund 133 - -
Bonus 548 942 47
6,304 22,296 1,962
Cash allowance
Total Wage Cost
Non-Wage Cost* (RM)
HRDF 13 N/A N/A
Facilities and benefits 517 5,231 302
SPPA N/A N/A 7
Total Non-Wage Cost* 530 5,231 309**
27,527 2,271
Total Labour Cost (RM)
Total Wage and Non-Wage
Cost*
6,834
* Does not include severance payment and recruitment cost
** Does not include levy, which was approximately RM1,200 per worker per year in 2015
3.3.7.1 Total Labour Cost Comparison: Malaysian and Non-Malaysian Employees
by Selected Job Categories
Further analysis by job category was done to assess the labour cost between Malaysian and non-
Malaysian employees to ensure a more accurate comparison. For example, expatriate / PR
employees were mostly concentrated in the top two categories (75% worked as managers and
professionals), hence the cost comparison between Malaysians and expatriates / PR was based
on these two job categories. Similarly, cost comparison with foreign workers was focused on the
bottom two job categories (plant and machine operators / assemblers and elementary
occupations), where majority of the foreign workers (80%) were employed as.
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