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Re:What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make? by xyzzy4 on Friday March 10, 2017 @03:19PM (#13841751)
My sister in law is a software engineer in India, and she makes about $450 per month, which is $5400 per year. She also often has to work weekends.
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Re:What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make? by vostok on Friday March 10, 2017 @03:26PM (#13841813)
India has huge inequality among software engineers. While $5400 is possible, but 35 lpa (and more), about 10x that number, is also possible for someone who is not exceptional.
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Re:What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make? by areyousure on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:11PM (#13842164)
For anyone else who doesn't easily process abbreviations from Indian English, "LPA" stands for lakhs per annum. A lakh is 100,000 and the implied currency is INR = Indian rupee.

As such, 35 lpa = 3.5 million INR/year ~ $52,600/year at present forex exchange rates (PPP value is another story).

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Re:What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make? by xyzzy4 on Friday March 10, 2017 @03:33PM (#13841864)
She has just accepted a new job that'll start soon, so she'll hopefully make some more. She is requesting 4 lakhs per year (~$6000 dollars) but doesn't know if it'll be that yet.
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