{"id":941766,"date":"2025-06-26T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941766"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:03:54","slug":"bengaluru-techies-are-not-even-earning-one-tenth-of-silicon-valley-salaries-ai-may-worsen-the-gap-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/26\/bengaluru-techies-are-not-even-earning-one-tenth-of-silicon-valley-salaries-ai-may-worsen-the-gap-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru techies are not even earning one-tenth of Silicon Valley salaries, AI may worsen the gap further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru, India\u2019s tech capital, offers the most cost-effective software engineering talent globally, with average annual salaries of just $12,000\u2014nearly one-tenth of the $125,000 average in Silicon Valley, according to a report of the Times of India. <\/p>\n<p>The report, based on WeAreCity report published by UnboxingBLR, highlights a stark wage gap: engineers in cities like Sydney ($78,000), Tel Aviv ($77,000), Toronto ($75,000), and London ($65,000) earn five to six times more. Even in Asian hubs such as Tokyo ($62,000), Seoul ($51,000), Singapore ($47,000), and Beijing ($46,000), salaries are significantly higher than in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru, India\u2019s tech capital, offers the most cost-effective software engineering talent globally, with average annual salaries of just $12,000\u2014nearly one-tenth of the $125,000 average in Silicon Valley, according to a report of the Times of India. The report, based on WeAreCity report published by UnboxingBLR, highlights a stark wage gap: engineers in cities like Sydney ($78,000), Tel Aviv ($77,000), Toronto ($75,000), and London ($65,000) earn five to six times more. Even in Asian hubs such as Tokyo ($62,000), Seoul ($51,000), Singapore ($47,000), and Beijing ($46,000), salaries are significantly higher than in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}