IT salaries in India and USA contrasted

Nic · Sep 10, 2003

Originally posted by SNGX1275
I think it was a little uncalled for saying "checkmate" too, you didn't win, Roderick didn't win, I with my very few replies didn't win, no one won, no one ever really wins in an online argument.

I already made a point about that. It was a debate that ended up impersonating an argument. Debates don't have winners or losers, they only bring individual points of view to the table.

Nic · Sep 18, 2003

US IT jobs under fire - The Register

IT employment in the US is coming under increasing pressure due to greater offshore outsourcing of contracts and the continued practice of hiring IT staff from overseas.

The concerns for the future of IT jobs in the US were raised by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST), which found that unemployment in the sector has risen to an average of six per cent in the first half of the year.

The CPST accepts that part of the problem lies in the health of the US economy, which has seen IT unemployment rise steadily over the last three years. However, it's warned that other forces are also to blame which could put further pressure on IT jobs.

It claims that in the past decade, the share of foreign-born IT workers has doubled, while the outsourcing of IT work overseas has quadrupled to more than $1.2 billion in 2001.

But pressure on jobs is not only being squeezed from the outside.

The number of IT graduates taking computer science has jumped 40 per cent over recent years adding to an increase in supply, it said.

Charles Hammond · Sep 25, 2003

If America is not a superpower who will save Europe when the next war brakes out. What if Kosavo had enveloped all of Europe in a giant war? Who on the European Continent is prepared to save Europe from the next big conflict???

America has all kinds of problems, we should just pull all of our troops out of europe and move to Hydrogen fuel source. That way we can tell both the middle east and Europe to find someone else to solve their problems. If I was in charge of the US, I would have just pulled everything we have out of Saudia Arabia long ago and froze all of their assets. It was the Saudi people who destroyed the City of New York with their funding of terrorism.

consie89 · Sep 26, 2003

Problems in Europe? i doubt very much that there will be a war in Europe for an awful long while, since most of it is capitalist and all locked togeather by the EU and alliances, the east is the problem now, Europe has been sorted and now its the east. Also what annoys me is. The Americans came into europe fullscale in thelast year, of WW2, claiming to have save the Brits arses. The Brits held in there since 39, and by 44 Germany was on its last legs anyway, you just finished them of and claimed all the credit.

Phantasm66 · Sep 26, 2003

....We're not STILL on this, are we?

Like some undead zombie that refuses to die, even when you've pumped it full of lead from an oozie 9mm, this thread just keeps coming and coming and coming and coming and coming....!

consie89 · Sep 28, 2003

hey, it was a fair post. blah

SNGX1275 · Dec 9, 2003

Hire American's at Indian salaries.
http://businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2003/sb2003122_8887.htm

And then Jon had a brainstorm. What if he offered Americans the jobs at the same rate he would be paying for Indian programmers? It seemed like a long shot. But it also seemed worth the gamble. So Jon placed some ads in The Boston Globe, offering full-time contract programming work for $45,000 annually. (He had decided that it was worth adding a $5,000 premium to what he'd pay the Indian workers in exchange for having the programmers on site.)

The result? "We got flooded" with resumes, about 90 in total, many from highly qualified programmers having trouble finding work in the down economy, Jon says. His decision: "For $5,000 it was no contest." Jon went American. And the outcome? "I think I got the best of both worlds. I got local people who came in for 10% more (than Indians). And I found really good ones."

Nic · Dec 9, 2003

If I got $45,000 (~£26,500) for programming I'd be pretty happy. I don't know what typical American programmer salaries are (I just checked >>> $90,000), but £26,500 is about typical for someone with around 2-3yrs experience here in the UK. You'll probably find that Indian programmers take home only about $3,000 (a guess) of that $40,000 figure quoted, with the remainder going to cover the cost of having work done overseas.

Masque · Dec 16, 2003

Originally posted by Phantasm66
A very good, and interesting read.

I strongly agree.....without being soapbox-ish.

MaskedBurrito · Dec 29, 2003

There's another superpower on the rise. Still far away but coming either way. The european union.

conradguerrero · Dec 30, 2003

I dont see what the 'problem' is with someone else doing the same job for less pay. Now, if its that your nation might be harmed by that, then your nation needs to adjust.

Einstein was right...

Nic · Dec 31, 2003

Originally posted by conradguerrero
Einstein was right...

???

Phantasm66 · Dec 31, 2003

I think I am going to rename this thread to "The Argument Thread". Or delete it. One or the other....

ak_in_charge · Dec 31, 2003

Well played Roderik. Very interesting facts and views on world politics.

Two Thumbs UP:grinthumb :grinthumb

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