Engineering salary increases

[sze5003]

Most Indians I know are contractors and get payed well. I don't think they get underpaid even with degrees from out of the country. The only degree they don't accept here is medical since you need to take the board exams again, which is tough even though education in the former country might have been better.

 

[Baasha]

Most Indians I know are contractors and get payed well. I don't think they get underpaid even with degrees from out of the country. The only degree they don't accept here is medical since you need to take the board exams again, which is tough even though education in the former country might have been better.

I don't think most Indians in the US are contractors. Most of them do work as employees and have to deal with the additional baggage of bad press against them even though they may be born and brought up here like the OP (I'm assuming he's Indian-American, dot-not-feather).

All this is just proof that America is not as meritocratic as it used to be. It is better than most countries in that regard; even better than India where certain groups who cry foul over imagined transgressions against them get cushy jobs and pensions. This meritocracy was much more pronounced in the US several decades ago when many Indians first emigrated here.

It is slowly but surely eroding due to several reasons.

 

[OverVolt]

Nepotism ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[TuxDave]

You're being underpaid because you are Indian.

I'm glad you posted that first so I could stop reading. In my grand sample size of 1 high tech company, this is hilariously wrong.

 

[KentState]

The only way I got huge bumps was by changing employers. 80 > 100 > 120 > 140k. I rarely see anyone move up quick enough but maybe software and IT management are different. This is mostly in Internet retail.