How much does an engineer in an India GCC cost versus the US?
A fully loaded senior software engineer costs $185,700 to $215,000 per year in the US. The equivalent engineer in an India GCC through a managed structure costs $26,000 to $46,800 fully loaded. That is a 4x to 5x gap on comparable seniority, and it is the arithmetic underneath the entire GCC category.
The number most companies get wrong is not the gap. It is the phrase "fully loaded," which hides different things on each side of the comparison
