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HITZ I She Makes It Happen: Malaysian Pay Gap I HITZ Morning Crew

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Meet Pristine Devkor, the founder behind the sometimes controversial Malaysian PayGap Instagram account exposing salary disparities.

The episode begins with the HITZ Morning Crew introducing Pristine Devkor, founder of Malaysian PayGap, as part of a week celebrating women leading up to International Women's Day. Pristine shares her background as a photographer whose overseas clients dried up during COVID, leading her to ask local photographers about their rates, but they refused to disclose them. This refusal triggered her to create Malaysian PayGap, an Instagram account and platform for anonymous salary sharing. She explains the criteria for submissions, including job role, salary, years of experience, age, and race, with a focus on career stories to provide context. The hosts discuss how the platform helps people see market rates and avoid undercharging, using examples from creative industries like MC jobs. Pristine addresses gender pay gaps, noting that data shows little disparity for urban single women in Malaysia, but highlights challenges for women returning to work after homemaking. She describes evolving the platform from anonymous submissions to street interviews to normalize salary discussions. Pristine reveals significant pay gaps in engineering and healthcare, citing examples like mechanical engineers earning $2,700-$3,500 starting pay versus oil and gas roles at $5,000-$8,000, and a surgeon consultant making $132,000 monthly. She faces skepticism and hateful comments from the public but focuses on the greater good of promoting transparency. Pristine advises women to build self-belief and take action to drive change. The episode concludes with her promoting the website paygap.asia for salary searches and a light-hearted moment where the hosts joke about revealing their own salaries.

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A salary-taboo conversation gets sharper when the hosts realize the question might land on them too.

Salary talk stays awkward until a radio crew turns the question back on itself. Malaysian Pay Gap founder Pristine Devkor traces how late-COVID disruption kept her in Malaysia after photography work and pushed her toward a platform where people could speak more openly about…

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You get a funny, awkward route into Malaysia's salary taboo, with a practical place to look up pay before changing jobs.

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