Originally Posted by
ChecklistMonkey
"and indeed, much of the software on the MAX had been engineered by recent grads of Indian software-coding academies making as little as $9 an hour,"
I like how that has taken off in America like "OMG! Underpaid engineers at $9/hr."
Meanwhile, in India, that salary is on the higher end for an software engineers when converted to ruppees, and above what 99.99% of what the average Indian make.
$9/hr is $1560/month which in Indian Rupees is 110,535 rupees/month. I'm not saying these guys were overpaid, nor am I saying they don't deserve higher pay. Just keep in mind, they made in 1 month what the average Indian makes in 1 yr.
"Financial Year 2015-2016. India's per capita income (nominal) was $1670 per year in 2016, ranked at 112th out of 164 countries by the World Bank"