Is 9000 RM per month is good in Penang for 7 yrs IT Professional

If your wife is working and if she gets job till 4-5k RM per month then after all.expense including few holiday's in a year ,you would be able to save all your salary.

The expense would be 1.5k- 1.8k for a nice house rent,food bill max 1k including nice restaurant dinner too few times, 500 RM all utilities expense,travel, mobile,wifi..

Just check on tax part as you would have to pay 26% and since RM also goign down so think before coming here.

Thanks for your reply .
My wife has just started working in a broking firm here. But she will not be working there.

The tax rate i have checked is about 24% in that case, i will have to pay around 2000RM as tax per month and will get only around 6800 to 7000RM in hand.

Will that be enough to stay and save?

If your wife is not working there then she would get bore easily as its very small island and not like KL.

Try for your wife job also there and then you can stay in Penang for a year atleast with savings of your full in hand salary.

If your wife would not be working then you would save 4K RM average monthly but since the place is very small and you would get bore in a year for sure.

Best would be if you wanna opt for job is try if your wife can get job and then you guys can happily stay ,earn and enjoy....

Thanks Dipen for quick response.
But if it would be only 4k RM saving per month that would convert into around 63000.
only around 20-25K more than my current savings. Might i will get that here also in my next switch.

In this case it would not be a good deal to go out of country and work.

Thanks for your answers Dipen !!