Average engineering salary increases 30% in last five years: NIRF Rankings 2022 | Education News,The Indian Express
The gap between entry-level engineers from the IITs and other engineering colleges persists, with a graduate from IIT-Bombay, for example, seeing a 60 per cent increase in the same period from 2016-’17 to 2020-'21.
— Harleenn Agarwal
From 25,000 a month in 2016-’17 to Rs 33,000 in 2020-’21, the average starting salary for engineering graduates in India increased by 30 per cent over the last five years and is inching closer to Rs 4 lakh per annum, an Indian Express analysis of the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) reports has shown.
Read |NIRF Rankings 2022: Average engineering salary increases 30% over last five years
The gap between entry-level engineers graduating from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT’s) and other engineering colleges persists, with a BTech graduate from an IIT-Bombay, for example, seeing a 60 per cent increase – from Rs 9.5 lakh to Rs 15 lakh per annum – during the same period (2016-’17 to 2020-’21).
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