Am I Expensive?

The Sinusoidal wave for the demand of the IT professionals is ever scary. The Ups & Downs of the Information Technology industry gets the heart & soul agitated of every person.

Seated in a corner of the cubicle and working on applications which run world’s business and seeing the outside world only through the 15'' screen, Wiki is all I speak about.

Being a cheap labor, the ability to work for longer duration, excellent English speaking capabilities and the ability to work more with minimal complaints is what makes people like me an attractive option for the IT companies.

Let me move down to a narrower scale of measurement of my work.

My Salary is Rs.20K per month. Mind you guys this is the Gross(CTC).

I work a minimum of 20 days a month and work on an average 10 hours a day. So I work a minimum of 200 hours a month.

Applying simple math, So what does this come up to?

Rs.100 per hour equivalent to $2.5 an hour.

Though I am being paid this less, there is always a fear of loosing the job during recession.

A job cut is done to cut costs, but always the performance is given as a reason.


Having an experience of greater than 1.5 years, getting $2.5 an hour, being in the fear of loosing my job during US recession, I always end up asking myself, "Am I Expensive?"


Assumptions:
1 USD = 40 INR (US $1 = Indian Rs.40)

Facts:
The electricity consumption, water consumption etc are not considered as an employee across countries would use these.