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Malaysia employment pay
The gazetted minimum is RM 1,700 a month or RM 8.72 an hour, and it has applied to every employer since 1 August 2025. This guide covers who it reaches, which payments count towards it, and what it leaves you with after statutory deductions.
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The Minimum Wages Order 2024 [P.U.(A) 376] was gazetted on 4 December 2024 under the National Wages Consultative Council Act 2011, revoking the 2022 Order. Its Schedule states each rate directly:
| Basis | Gazetted rate |
|---|---|
| Monthly | RM 1,700 |
| Hourly | RM 8.72 |
| Daily — 6-day week | RM 65.38 |
| Daily — 5-day week | RM 78.46 |
| Daily — 4-day week | RM 98.08 |
The hourly rate is gazetted, not calculated
It is tempting to check the hourly figure by dividing the monthly rate by 26 days and 8 hours. That gives a different, lower number and it is wrong. The Order states the hourly rate in its own right, and the daily rates likewise — they are not the monthly rate divided by the number of days.
A single rate now applies to every employer. That was not always true: the Order phased in, reaching smaller employers later than larger ones, and the two-tier period is real if you are ever checking a historical payslip rather than a current one.
The Order applies nationwide and does not distinguish by nationality, so Malaysian and foreign employees within its scope are on the same rate. There is no separate Sabah or Sarawak figure.
The significant exclusion is domestic servants. The Order expressly does not apply to them — the term is defined in the Employment Act 1955, the Sabah Labour Ordinance and the Sarawak Labour Ordinance. If that is your working arrangement, the minimum wage rate is not the right starting point and your terms come from your contract and the applicable labour legislation instead.
Minimum wage means basic wages. Allowances, overtime, bonuses, commissions and other variable payments are excluded from the comparison — they sit on top.
This is the point most often misread, and it cuts one way only: an employer cannot pay a basic wage below the rate and argue that the total package clears it. If your basic wage is under the gazetted figure, the allowances stacked on top do not fix it.
Part-time work is covered. Because the Order gazettes an hourly rate and a set of daily rates, an hourly-paid or part-time arrangement is checked against those directly rather than pro-rating the monthly figure.
Note that the daily rate depends on how many days a week you work, and it moves in the opposite direction to intuition: fewer days a week means a higher gazetted daily rate, because the same monthly floor is spread across fewer days.
The minimum wage is a floor on basic wages, not on what reaches your bank account. Statutory deductions still apply: EPF and SOCSO and EIS come out in the ordinary way, so take-home is lower than the gazetted figure.
Rather than quote a net figure here — it changes with your age, citizenship category and any other deductions — run it through the calculator, which reads the current statutory tables directly.
The gazetted minimum wage is RM 1,700 a month, or RM 8.72 an hour, under the Minimum Wages Order 2024 [P.U.(A) 376]. A single rate has applied to all employers since 1 August 2025; before that date a phase-in meant smaller employers were on a lower rate. Minimum wage means basic wages only.
No, and this is the most common error. The Order gazettes the hourly rate as its own figure in the Schedule — it is not derived from the monthly one, and dividing the monthly rate by 26 days and 8 hours gives a different, lower number. Use the gazetted hourly rate of RM 8.72.
Yes. The Minimum Wages Order applies nationwide — Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak and the Federal Territories are on the same rate. Unlike road tax or some statutory schedules, there is no regional split.
No. Minimum wage means basic wages. Allowances, overtime, bonuses, commissions and other variable payments sit on top of it and cannot be used to bring a lower basic wage up to the minimum. An employer paying a basic wage below the rate is not compliant because the total happens to clear it.
The Order does not distinguish by nationality — it applies to employees covered by it regardless of citizenship. Domestic servants are the significant exclusion; the Order expressly does not apply to them, as defined in the Employment Act 1955 and the Sabah and Sarawak Labour Ordinances.
Yes. The Order gazettes an hourly rate of RM 8.72 alongside the monthly and daily rates, so part-time and hourly-paid work is covered on the same basis. Daily rates are also gazetted and vary with how many days a week you work.
Yes. Statutory deductions apply to a minimum-wage salary in the ordinary way — EPF, SOCSO and EIS. PCB depends on your annual position and typically does not arise at this income level, but the payroll deductions do. Use the net salary calculator to see the take-home figure.
Rates on this page are read from the repository’s statutory data file rather than retyped, so this guide and DuitMap’s calculators cannot disagree. Last checked against the gazetted text on 11 July 2026.
This is general information about a published rate, not employment-law advice on your situation. For a dispute, go to the labour department for your state.