Why India's data scientists make a fraction of their US counterparts FactorDaily

Data scientists and machine learning engineers in India make about one-tenth of what their counterparts in the United States do, a leading global survey shows. The median annual salary in India, based on 450 responses, is $11,715 (Rs 7.5 lakhs), a fraction of the comparable annual earnings in the US ($110,000). The median for all respondents from 52 countries, whose data was considered in the calculations, is $55,441. Kaggle, the world's largest global online community of data scientists, statisticians and machine learning engineers, published its The State of Data Science & Machine Learning annual survey earlier this week, deriving insights on 16,000 respondents in a report that polled the data science and machine learning industry. The Google-owned platform currently boasts of over a million members and is known to attract the world's smartest data scientists by holding public and private data science competitions.