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National Employment Returns (NER) 2018
wages is similar to the detailed breakdown such as breakdown by gender, by
nationality, by job categories etc.
It should be noted that there are other ways to compute the average salaries
and wages indicators depending on the usage of the data.
The values which are below 25% of the total salary values for the employee’s
25 th Percentile
earnings. When an establishment pay at the ‘25 th percentile’ of the range, it
means that the value is in the bottom 25% of the salary scale.
The ‘middle’ observation in a set of data that are arranged in sequence, such
Median (50 th
Percentile)
that 50% are below and 50% are above that point. The ‘Median” point of the
range is considered as the ‘middle’ of the market. It is used for the purpose of
compensation analysis due to its stability.
It is the number of a set of data values which cuts off at the highest 25% of
th
75 Percentile:
data.
High-Skill:
Managers,
professionals,
technicians
and
associates
professionals;
Category of
skills
Semi-Skill: Clerical support, service and sales, craft and related trades
workers and plant and machine operators and assemblers
Low-Skill: Elementary occupations
Hard-to-fill
vacancies
Hard-to-fill vacancies refer to the existing vacancies which have remained
vacant for 3 months or longer despite the establishment’s recruitment effort.
Expatriate: Foreigner who works in Malaysia with the highest level of
management position/management and professional or technical skills
occupation which requires experience and relevant technical skills approved
by Expatriate Committee formed by agencies.
Foreign
Workers
Categories
Foreign Worker: Foreigner who works in Malaysia without professional
qualification and technical skills as well as experience.
Permanent Resident (PR): Foreign citizen who has been granted the
Permanent Residency status in Malaysia under the Immigration Act and
Regulations 1959/63. PR is exempted from all visa requirements to enter and
remain in Malaysia
Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies by contracting out a
business process to outside suppliers in place of an internal resource.
Outsourcing
Number of outsourced workers engaged refer to total workers supply by an
outsourcing company to work on the establishment’s premise.
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