At most of the companies I've been in the U.S. the difference in pay between senior coders and middle management was slight to non-existent but if you look at A

At most of the companies I've been in the U.S. the difference in pay between senior coders and middle management was slight to non-existent but if you look at Accenture's Indian salaries associate manager makes 50% more then team lead, and makes almost triple what a senior software engineer makes. While this phenomenon exists in the U.S. it seems to me it is an order of magnitude smaller then it is in India.