Annual Real Salaries & Wages of Citizens by State
Data as of 2025Real median and mean monthly salaries & wages of employees who are Malaysian citizens by state, at 2010 prices.
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How is this data produced?
This data is produced from the Salaries & Wages Survey (SWS), which DOSM conducts alongside the Labour Force Survey (LFS) through personal interviews with households in private living quarters, covering urban and rural areas in all states.
Salaries & wages refer to the monthly wage rate received by employees in the public and private sectors from their principal job in the reference month, comprising:
- basic wages
- cost-of-living allowances
- other guaranteed and regularly paid allowances in cash or in kind
- overtime payments
They exclude bonuses, gratuities, family allowances and social security payments made by employers. The statistics cover employees aged 15-64; employers, own-account workers, unpaid family workers, domestic workers employed by households and casual workers are not covered.
Real salaries & wages are nominal salaries & wages adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of each state, and are expressed at 2010 prices: real salaries & wages = nominal salaries & wages x CPI (2010) / CPI (year).
Publication(s) using this data
The Salaries & Wages Survey Report, 2025, the latest edition of the annual salaries & wages statistics published by DOSM.
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Dataset description
Real median and mean monthly salaries & wages of employees who are Malaysian citizens by state, at 2010 prices.
Variable definitions
- State
- Date
- Real Median Salaries & Wages
- Real Mean Salaries & Wages
Name in Dataset | Variable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
state (Categorical) | State | One of 16 states, or 'Malaysia' for the national figure |
date (Date) | Date | The date in YYYY-MM-DD format, with MM-DD set to 01-01 since the data is at annual frequency |
wages_median_real (Integer, RM) | Real Median Salaries & Wages | Median monthly salaries & wages at 2010 prices |
wages_mean_real (Integer, RM) | Real Mean Salaries & Wages | Mean monthly salaries & wages at 2010 prices |
Last updated:
21 Sept 2026, 12:00
Next update:
30 Sept 2027, 12:00
Data source(s)
- Department of Statistics Malaysia
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This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.
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# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet
import pandas as pd
URL_DATA = 'https://storage.dosm.gov.my/labour/wages_real_state_citizen.parquet'
df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA)
if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
print(df)Sample OpenAPI query
The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.
import requests
import pprint
url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=wages_real_state_citizen&limit=3"
response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)
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