PUTRAJAYA (Jan 27): The median monthly wage of Malaysia's 7.06 million formal employees increased to RM2,864 in September 2025, up 4.3% from RM2,745 a year earlier, according to the Third Quarter 2025 Employee Wages Statistics (Formal Sector) Report released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) on Tuesday. Wage data by age group showed employees aged 45 to 49 continued to record the highest median monthly wage at RM3,800 across all three months of the third quarter. According to DOSM, all economic sectors posted higher median wages during the quarter. It said that although representing just 0.6% of formal employment, the mining and quarrying sector continued to record the highest median monthly wage at RM6,600, up by 11.9% year-on-year, while the agriculture sector, comprising 1.8% of citizen formal employees, recorded the lowest median wage at RM2,245. “Furthermore, percentile analysis revealed that the bottom 10% of Malaysian formal employees received monthly wages of RM1,700 or less, while employees in the 90th percentile earned at least RM9,000 per month.

Source: The Edge Markets January 27, 2026 06:16 UTC