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One thing stands out for me: salary after 10 years experience is more
than 5 times entry-level salary, and after 11 years or more it's more
than 7 times entry-level (based on the Trim/Mean values in section 3).
Try getting that kind of a raise in the US!! Here, once you approach 2X
entry-level salary, you become layoff bait.
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Compensation in South East Asia *might* just be influenced by the
assumptions and norms of North American and similar markets. Consider
the following:
* Western writers have set their entry bar at...say US$43,000;
* 50% of Indian survey respondents were outsourced resources, likely
employed to Western contracts;
* Western companies know they can budget between US$6,000 as local
minimum and 43,000 per Indian writer;
* Companies assess random variables (retention bonuses, company
goodwill, actual years of experience, technical skills in high demand,
etc) in determining where any Indian writer will fall in that vast
range. From the survey, it seems that 'years of experience' is *the*
rewarding variable. However, that writer still must have 11+ years
experience to be paid on par with an entry level Western writer!
So, there's not a lot of benefit in comparing local increments with
Western ones. The Western/local salary gap is significant--hence locally
we see huge room for increments and wild intra-market disparities that
don't normally apply in Western labour markets.
Anyway, with the recent volley of discussion on outsourcing, I'd say
that Paresh's posting has done much to help us to appreciate why
outsourcing continues to be an attractive alternative to Euro/American
companies.
Lisa H.
GTA, ON
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