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The difference is much lesser 7-10x in big tech (Google, Amazon, Msft, etc). Big tech's Indian offices pays about 1/3 to 1/4 of what they would earn in the comp
by ss1996 3y ago
The difference is much lesser 7-10x in big tech (Google, Amazon, Msft, etc). Big tech's Indian offices pays about 1/3 to 1/4 of what they would earn in the company's USA office. Levels.fyi will corroborate this.
Yes, while the average software engineer in India might earn 7-10x less than in the US, this isn't the case within major tech companies.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoSalaries are 1/4th - but you also don't have as high of pension / payroll costs as in US. At l3 & l4 - when you factor in benefits (including health care costs), 401k matching, payroll taxes - it's probably 1/5th or less.
- ss1996 3y agoFair points, 1/5th is a good estimate.
- bluGill 3y agoPay in India is variable. They have a lot of great engineers who make good money - not what they would in the US, but the difference is not that much. They also have a lot of "engineers" who shouldn't be engineers doing the simplest tasks who may 10x less than they would in the US. If you just need a simple web app that is just like every other web app except with your logo you don't need the great engineers.
- berdario 3y agoGoogle L3 SWE in BLR: 36k https://www.levels.fyi/offer/4bb28696-b3a9-430e-af6b-87e139ba6399?currency=USD https://www.levels.fyi/offer/4bb28696-b3a9-430e-af6b-87e139b... Google L4 SWE in BLR: 64k https://www.levels.fyi/offer/3631ce80-f5fa-41e3-bd22-192a98ad493f?currency=USD https://www.levels.fyi/offer/3631ce80-f5fa-41e3-bd22-192a98a... Google L3 SWE in Bay Area: 236k https://www.levels.fyi/offer/8cb64099-ffcf-437f-baa3-a88ae7d71c48 https://www.levels.fyi/offer/8cb64099-ffcf-437f-baa3-a88ae7d... Google L4 SWE in Bay Area: 260k https://www.levels.fyi/offer/4468e21b-6650-4e6c-948b-e90ea1d293aa https://www.levels.fyi/offer/4468e21b-6650-4e6c-948b-e90ea1d... That's a difference between 4x and 6.5x I think that your 3x difference is definitely a lower bound, and it'll be closer to 6.5x than to 3x or 4x most of the time (though I don't see aggregated data per-company, per-region in levels.fyi (but I didn't bother logging in)