About SalaryCalculatorsMalaysia.com

We are a small independent team building free calculators that show Malaysians exactly what happens between their gross salary and the money that reaches their bank account. This page explains how the calculations are built, which official sources they come from, how we keep them current, and every correction we have made.

What We Do

Malaysian payroll is genuinely complicated. EPF follows one set of rules, SOCSO and EIS follow contribution schedules with a wage ceiling, and PCB follows LHDN's progressive tax brackets with relief caps layered on top. Most people just want to know what lands in their account.

We maintain nine free calculators covering that whole chain, from the flagship Salary Calculator through to the EPF, SOCSO, PCB tax, income tax, employer payroll, bonus tax, salary increment and unpaid leave tools. Alongside them we publish plain-English guides explaining each deduction.

Every tool is free, with no account, no paywall and no usage limit. We take no payment from payroll vendors, HR platforms, insurers or recruitment agencies, and nothing on this site is sponsored or placed in exchange for money. Where we link to a commercial service, it is because it is genuinely relevant, not because we were paid to.

How Our Calculations Are Built

Every figure on this site comes from published statutory rates, not from rounded approximations. These are the rules our calculators apply for 2026:

EPF 11% employee below 60. Employer pays 13% at RM5,000 and below, 12% above. From age 60: 0% employee, 4% employer. Foreign workers 2% each side. Source: KWSP mandatory contribution rates
SOCSO Contribution amounts are read directly from PERKESO's gazetted schedule, band by band, rather than calculated from a percentage. Employer 1.75% (1.25% Employment Injury plus 0.5% Invalidity); employee 0.5% Invalidity. RM6,000 wage ceiling. Source: Contribution Rate of Act 4, including SKBBK (PDF)
SKBBK LINDUNG 24 Jam, 0.75% of wages, deducted from the employee only, in force since 1 June 2026. Applies to every employee covered by Act 4, including foreign workers and those aged 60 and above. Rises to 1.00% in June 2028 and 1.25% in June 2031. Source: PERKESO LINDUNG 24 Jam
EIS 0.2% each from employee and employer, subject to the RM6,000 ceiling. Not applied to foreign workers, who are outside the scheme. Derived from the wage band rather than transcribed, because PERKESO publishes the Act 800 schedule only as a scanned image. Source: PERKESO contribution rates (Act 800)
PCB Progressive resident brackets from 0% to 30%, with the RM9,000 individual relief, EPF relief capped at RM4,000, and the RM400 rebate where chargeable income is RM35,000 or below. Source: LHDN tax rates and reliefs

Calculations run entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server, logged or stored, and no account is needed to use any tool on this site.

Where Our Estimates Differ From Official Payroll

We would rather tell you the limits of these tools than overstate them. Our figures are close planning estimates, and there are specific points where an official payroll run can differ:

  • KWSP requires employers to use the Third Schedule wage bands for salaries up to RM20,000 rather than an exact percentage, so official EPF can differ by a small amount.
  • SOCSO and SKBBK amounts are transcribed from the gazetted PERKESO table and should match official payroll exactly. EIS is the one figure we derive rather than transcribe, at 0.2% of the wage band, because PERKESO publishes the Act 800 schedule only as a scanned image. It is correct at normal salary levels but may differ by a few sen below RM200 a month.
  • LHDN's official PCB formula considers accumulated year-to-date income and prior deductions. We annualise your current month, which is standard for estimators but will not match a payroll system exactly, particularly in bonus months.
  • We model the most common tax reliefs. LHDN recognises more than twenty relief categories that we do not attempt to capture.

For official payroll submission or tax filing, always work from KWSP, PERKESO and LHDN guidance or a qualified payroll professional.

Official Sources We Use

Every rate on this site is checked against the responsible agency rather than against other calculator websites:

KWSP (EPF)

Employer and employee contribution rates, the Third Schedule and foreign worker rules. kwsp.gov.my

PERKESO (SOCSO & EIS)

Gazetted contribution schedules, the RM6,000 wage ceiling and the LINDUNG 24 Jam scheme introduced in June 2026. perkeso.gov.my

LHDN (Income Tax)

Resident tax brackets, relief limits, rebates and PCB guidance. hasil.gov.my

How We Keep Rates Current

Statutory rates change, and an out-of-date calculator is worse than no calculator. When PERKESO introduced the LINDUNG 24 Jam scheme on 1 June 2026 — a new deduction affecting more than nine million employees — we added it to every affected tool and every worked example across the site, not just the headline page.

We review rates against the official sources above whenever a change is announced, and at minimum at the start of each calendar year and around the national budget. Pages carry a visible last-reviewed date so you can judge how current the figures are.

Rates last reviewed: 10 August 2026, against the gazetted KWSP, PERKESO and LHDN schedules, including LINDUNG 24 Jam (SKBBK) effective 1 June 2026.

Corrections Policy

If you find a figure that looks wrong, we want to know. Send the page link, the values you entered, the result you expected and the official source you are comparing against, and we will check it. Where we find an error we correct it across every calculator and example that shares the same rule, not just the page that was reported.

Email [email protected] or use the contact page. Substantive corrections are published in the log below, dated, so you can see exactly what changed and when.

Corrections & Updates Log

We publish every substantive correction we make, with the date and what changed. If a calculator you relied on was wrong, you deserve to be able to see when and how it was fixed.

10 AUG 2026 Added LINDUNG 24 Jam (SKBBK) and corrected our SOCSO rates. We had been missing the LINDUNG 24 Jam employee contribution, which took effect on 1 June 2026, and our SOCSO rates were wrong: we applied an employer rate of 1.9% and an employee rate of 0.55%, neither of which appears in the gazetted schedule. The correct figures are 1.75% employer and 0.5% employee for SOCSO, plus 0.75% employee for SKBBK. At a RM3,000 salary this understated the total deduction by about RM21 a month. Both are now fixed across every calculator and worked example.
10 AUG 2026 Switched from percentage formulas to the gazetted contribution table. PERKESO's published amounts do not follow the headline percentages exactly — the lowest bands are fixed values and rounding to 5 sen is inconsistent between bands. We now read all 65 bands directly from the official schedule instead of calculating them, so our SOCSO and SKBBK figures match official payroll to the sen.
10 AUG 2026 Fixed foreign worker and age 60+ handling. Foreign workers were being charged the Category 1 employee SOCSO rate when they should fall under Category 2, and the payroll calculator showed zero employer SOCSO for employees aged 60 and above when the employer still owes the 1.25% Employment Injury share.
01 OCT 2024 PERKESO wage ceiling raised from RM5,000 to RM6,000. Applied to all SOCSO and EIS calculations at the time the change took effect.

What We Are Not

We are a small independent team, not a government body. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by KWSP, PERKESO, LHDN or any Malaysian government agency, and we have no commercial relationship with any payroll or HR provider. Our tools provide general estimates for planning and education. They are not payroll statements, tax assessments, legal opinions or financial advice, and they do not replace professional guidance on your specific circumstances.

Who This Site Is For

Employees

Understand your payslip, check a deduction, and see what actually reaches your account.

Job Seekers

Compare offers on net pay rather than the gross figure in the offer letter.

Employers & HR

Budget the true cost of a hire, including employer EPF, SOCSO and EIS paid on top of salary.

Contact Us

For corrections, questions, calculator requests, or partnership enquiries, email [email protected]. More detail is on our contact page.