Global consultancy firm Hewitt Associates has found that salary increases in India in 2002 were lower at an average 9.9 per cent but are expected to recover slightly at 11.1 per cent next year.Hewitt’s South and West Asia Measurement Practice leader Nishchae Suri said that ‘‘according to a survey salary increases in the country were lower in 2002 at 9.9 per cent but are expected to recover slightly at 11.1 per cent in 2003’’.Hewitt conducted a small-scale salary increase survey in India, ahead of a much broader survey to be released in January next year, and 51 organisations across eight industries were surveyed in August and September this year.As per the survey findings, the highest average salary increases for 2002 were awarded to employees in the professional, supervisor, technical group at 11 per cent. The same employee group is expected to earn the highest salary hike in 2003 at 12.3 per cent.Overall, the highest average salary increases across all levels in 2002, by industry, were awarded to employees in the IT-enabled industry at 16.4 per cent. These people are again expected to be given the highest raises at 15.4 per cent in 2003. The survey also indicated a rising prevalence of variable pay plans across India.
