I think the cost of an engineer is way less than 80K in India. Here in the Netherlands a senior SE would be $80K. I see no reason to go to India instead of western Europe then.
I've seen that consistently across companies in the past decade. Europe salaries have been stagnating while India and China can be growing 10% a year. The gap, assuming there was one 20 years ago, didn't last long.
The Indians I've worked with who returned say they did it because life was easier. Sure they make less money on India, but in India servants come every day to cook and clean (for about 60 cents a day). As one guy said "I know how to cook, but I didn't realize I'd be cooking every meal"
The best engineers I've ever worked with were definetly not making that sort of money, mostly because they were the sort of people that didn't like going to interviews and were more interested in tinkering with their side projects and hobbies than competative careers.
One of the reasons to move to India would be the availability of talent even if it is at comparable cost. Companies like to scale and lack of talent is a risk they want to mitigate.
This is not how ratios work.
If B/G is high, G/B is low. But if P is a very high number G/B * P must be a decently high number as well.
I have worked in one, 80% of the work is in making the managers both India & American look good to upper management.
India is also a huge market for uber.
Disclaimer : am Dutch.
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Set the "Steuerklasse" to 1 for singles, 3 for married employees.
Closer to 150..
Are other engineering disciplines valued higher?