Enter what you earned in a past year and what you earn now. We adjust for Malaysia's official price data and tell you, in one sentence, whether your pay buys more or less than it did.
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Use monthly pay, gross or take-home, but the same for both. Nothing you type leaves this page.
Your pay rose 27%, prices rose 14% since 2020, so you're about 11% better off.
Your RM3,000 in 2020 is worth RM3,435 in today's ringgit. That is the pay you would need now just to keep up.
Pay +27% · Prices +14% · Real change +11%
Your 2020 pay of RM3,000 grown with prices. The dashed line is your pay now.
Prices: DOSM Consumer Price Index, overall (2010 = 100). 2020 uses that year's average; "now" uses August 2026, the latest month published. Not seasonally adjusted. Your own costs may have risen faster or slower than the average.
"Better off" means your pay grew faster than prices, so it buys more than it did. "Worse off" means prices grew faster. Your old salary in today's ringgit is the pay you would need now just to stand still. To compare amounts of money rather than salaries, use the inflation calculator.
Your pay adjusted for prices. If your pay rose 10% but prices rose 12%, your real salary fell by about 2%: your pay buys a little less than it did. This calculator compares the change in your pay with the change in Malaysia's Consumer Price Index over the same period.
The overall Consumer Price Index published monthly by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) on data.gov.my. The past year you pick uses that year's average, because a salary is earned across the year. Today uses the latest month published.
Either, as long as both numbers are the same kind. Take-home pay also reflects changes in EPF, SOCSO, EIS and tax deductions between the two years, which gross pay does not.
The CPI tracks the average basket of a typical household. If more of your money goes on food, rent or transport than the average, your costs may have risen faster or slower than the official figure.
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