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Monthly Overtime Payment
On average, full-time Malaysian employees received about RM400 per month for overtime hours.
Those in the managerial, associate professional, skilled agricultural / forestry / livestock / fishery
and machine operation / assembly job categories received the highest average OT payment.
Table 4-10: Average monthly overtime payment per Malaysian employee by gender (RM)
All employees Male Female
Full-time 390 505 275
Part-time 134 199 68
Figure 4-18: Average monthly overtime payment per Malaysian employee by job category (RM)
The job categories which received the highest average amount of OT payment are similar across
male and female employees (except for skilled agricultural / forestry / livestock / fishery
workers).
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