Statutory rates. EPF employer share is 13% of wages at or below RM 5,000 a month and 12% above it, with no wage ceiling. SOCSO employer share is about 1.75% and EIS 0.2%, both applied only up to a RM 6,000 monthly wage. The HRD Corp levy is 1% of wages and is compulsory for employers with ten or more Malaysian employees. Together these add roughly 13 to 16 percent on top of salary.
Bonus is modelled as one month, which is a common contractual minimum rather than a generous assumption. Recruitment is modelled at 15% of annual salary, the low end of typical agency placement fees for specialist engineering roles. Equipment is RM 12,000 and training RM 6,000 a year, both conservative for someone expected to run AI workloads.
What we deliberately left out of the in-house column, because it would be arguing unfairly: management time spent supervising, office space and utilities, medical and insurance benefits, leave and public holiday coverage, the cost of the process staying manual while the role sits vacant, and the risk that the hire does not work out. Published estimates put the cost of a mis-hire for a specialist engineering role at between 30% and 200% of first-year earnings. None of that is in the numbers above.
The VYROX column uses our published rate of RM 32,000 per pod-month with a three-month minimum, plus a fixed RM 12,000 Recon which is credited in full against the deployment when you proceed. A pod is a team, not a person. Statutory contributions, recruitment, equipment, training, leave and attrition are all our cost, not yours.
Productive months for the in-house column are twelve, less the vacancy period, less half of the ramp-up period. That treats a ramping engineer as half productive, which is charitable. The VYROX column counts only the months you said you need, all of them productive, starting within about two weeks of signature.
This is a planning model, not a quotation. Nothing here is tax, accounting or legal advice, and your actual statutory position should be confirmed with your payroll adviser. Our own price is fixed in writing after Recon.