IT professionals: Is your pay adequate?

Professionals in IT can now check to see if they are getting adequate pay or not via the ITPaycheck.com website which has been jointly launched by IIM Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Science and the ITPF (IT Professionals Forum), as a check on what salaries should be compared to what they are in the IT and BPO sectors. Positions such as sales executives, project managers, vice president are all included in the list. Based on the variables, a vice president's salary in the IT industry should be approximately Rs 22,95,163 in contrast to the current Rs 19,70,658 which is currently being paid.

The site also displays the highest paid professionals across the IT Industry today. According to ITPaycheck.com, Rajesh Hukku, chairman i-Flex Solutions is one other highest paid with an annual salary of Rs 432.00 lakh for 2005-06. Other highest paid professionals are - Ramesh Emani, President Wipro Technologies (Rs 84.50 Lakh), S Ramadorai, CEO & MD,TCS (Rs 214.43 Lakh), S D Shibulal, Director HR, Infosys (Rs 101.74 Lakh), Jaithirth Rao, CMD Mphasis (Rs 129.46 Lakh) and Phaneesh Murthy, CEO & MD, iGate (Rs 273.85 Lakh).