Seen that? - IT salaries up - inspite of offshoring

Filed in archive Best of on November 30, 2009

IT salaries up - inspite of offshoring at The Outsourcing Weblog

According to data from the META Group, IT salaries are expected to rise by 10-15% over the next three years. Can you hear the collective sigh or relief from system administrators California to New York? But this does seem strange, when considering the frequent reports of mega deals that are going to big outsourcing companies. How can this be when a worker from India demands 5x less than his American counterpart? For one [...] Read More


BPO Salaries: Going Up at The Outsourcing Weblog

One of the things which BPO could cause is the rising salary rate for BPO workers. If this would be a good or a bad thing, this is still debatable. For fresh graduates, this means a high starting salary for their first work and also a choice of their desired position. On the other hand, BPO companies could experience a high attrition rate because of their employees resigning for better opportunities. [...] Read More


Outsourcing: The Cause of Lower Salaries for US Engineers? at The Outsourcing Weblog

It is no secret that outsourcing "some" (take note of the word, some) engineering tasks are being outsourced to other countries because of the universal reason of cost-cutting. This brings us to the speculation that outsourcing might be the culprit why the salaries of engineers from the US is going down. The issue also grew rapidly with the news given by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). According to NAE, as [...] Read More


Salaries in India, Skyrocketing at The CIO Weblog

Forbes has an article highlighting the salary rise in India, wage inflation is being discussed as one of the key issues facing IT Services Firms in India, here are excerpts of the same: It pays to be part of India's talent-hungry corporate world, where average salaries rose between 11% and 17% last year and are predicted to rise by an average of 14.5% in 2007, according to a new survey. A [...] Read More


Cutting Salaries at Biz Plan Hacks

Late last month BusinessWeek ran two stories on cutting salaries: Does It Pay to Reduce Pay? and Cutting Salaries Instead of Jobs. Does it make sense?Once considered off limits for salaried managers and professionals, base pay reductions are becoming increasingly common in today's brutal recession. Many human resources experts believe the recent moves by major companies-household names such as FedEx (FDX), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Saks Fifth Avenue are all trimming [...] Read More