Where these salary figures come from
Most salary sites in Malaysia don’t tell you where their numbers come from. We do the opposite — because in this field, a figure you can’t trace is a figure you shouldn’t trust.
Our sources
- Public-sector pay — the Public Service Department (JPA), Service Circular No. 1/2024 (SSPA), and the official Public Service Commission (SPA) pages for each scheme’s starting salary.
- Allowance rates — the allowance schedules in JPA’s SSPA master circular (ITKA, ITP, BISH, BIPK).
- National average pay— the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), Salaries & Wages Survey Report, under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
What we verify before publishing
Every salary figure is traced to an official document, not to another website. Where two official sources exist — for example JPA’s schedule and the Ministry of Finance budget — we cross-check both. We link to the original document on every page.
What we do NOT publish
If we can’t trace a figure to an official source, we don’t publish it — even if it’s all over other sites. Police and military pay, for instance, sit under separate circulars we couldn’t access directly, so we don’t print those figures until they’re verified. We’d rather leave a gap than fill it with a wrong number.
Basic pay vs gross pay
We try to always separate basic pay (the base figure in the grade table) from gross pay (basic plus fixed allowances — much closer to what actually lands in your account). Many other sites show only basic pay, and that answers the wrong question.
Updates
Pay policy changes. The SSPA Phase 2 rise (7%) took effect on 1 January 2026, and we update pages when the rules change. The last-updated date is shown on every article.