If you are looking for salary benchmarks in India, check out this wonderful resource. Kelly Services is a leading international recruitment & staffing firm and they are deeply entrenched in India with offices in 12 cities. Kelly has released a Salary Handbook for India for 2008/09 that can serve as a very useful reference point for the latest salary trends & new job titles. They claim that the salary ranges in the handbook are a realistic representation of the jobs marketplace.

The handbook encompasses different areas - Banking & Finance, Engineering & Technical, Human Resources, Information Technology, ITeS - BPO, Logistics & Warehousing, Office Support, Sales & Marketing. It consists of job titles, suggested job descriptions along with the salary ranges.

The handbook is embedded in the form of a ppt below but it is available for download at the Kelly website.

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I went through the handbook and it comes across as an excellent benchmark for salary data. The data looks fairly credible to me.

A big thanks to the company for releasing this publicly ( and free of charge)…