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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (14094)	10/1/2003 8:57:45 PM
From: ild	Respond to of 306849

I'd guess that in the place this Indian programmer works (and lives) the average wage is much much higher than the nation's average. So is the cost of living.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (14094)	10/1/2003 9:10:32 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I have heard this $5K/year salary for indian programmers soundbyte, but in practice it costs 30K/year to hire indian resources from the consulting firms offshore like Satyam. An american company can't really hire one or two workers directly, even if they were willing to work for $5K, and I have heard that figure is too low. Unless you really work with offshoring its hard to quantify these figures. All I can say is that there is something to be said for "proximity to the customer" and these offshore projects, while cheap, often don't hit their mark and then it is no bargain.