Bengaluru pays the highest salaries in India
Hardware & networking, software & IT services, and the old favourite, the consumer sector, are the three highest paying industries in India, according to LinkedIn, which has just done a salary study for the first time in the country based on data on its platform. By city, Bengaluru pays the highest salaries - which goes with the fact that technology industries pay the most - followed by Mumbai and Delhi. Hardware & networking jobs fetch about Rs 15 lakh per annum The hardware jobs being paid highly are not the traditional ones, but those in the area of chip design and new-age networking, experts said. Shivananda Koteshwar, head of design R&D at semiconductor tools company Synopsys India, said in the area of VLSI (very-large-scale integration), salaries have exploded because a lot of chip design implementation has moved to India. VLSI is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining hundreds of thousands of transistors or devices intto a s...