Expat lawyer in KL - average salary for 10 yrs experience?

Hello vippy and welcome to Expat.com

While waiting for members to advise, I invite you to browse through threads talking about living expenses and Salary packages in our Cost of Living in Kuala Lumpur section of the forum.

Best Regards
Kenjee

Hi impossibe to say as expat lawyers in kl are rarer than hens teeth. Foreign lawyers cant practice here and most companies dont "waste" work permits on lawyers as hard to get. Lawyers are seen as a pure cost not a profit centre unlike say an engineer or a manager. Seen that in quite a few companies as legal work done back home or by short term transfers as consultants. So i only ever meet transitory lawyers not paid locally. Must be some around of course. A few i met were on 6 month contracts only to start up a business.

So my advice is highest of double your Indian salary or 10k plus 2k for a wife and 5k per school age kid. So wife and 2 kids equals 22k RM. Prob lower than your salary anyway as a senior lawyer

Thanks Kenjee

I'll not be a practicing lawyer. I am an in house counsel who lead the legal function of our businesses. So you think a 22k per month salary is going to be sufficient for me to live a decent life and save too? Is there a website or reference I can check?

Hi thats what i meant. In house lawyer. Very unusual to get a job like that!

22k. Is min I reckon. On another forum we have people asking if their 16k (sixteen) rm per month housing allowance is enough.