India hasn't changed much: Artificial intelligence is not the hottest job of 2018

Someone might think his father was right after all when it came to choice of career if one looks at this year's Randstad Insights Salary Trends Report. Even when there is a growing noise about emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning and blockchain, it is the good-old profession of medicine that can get you the highest salary. Specialist doctors get the highest salaries, according to the report. They top the chart with an average annual CTC (cost to company) at Rs 18.4 lakh, followed by solution architects at a CTC of Rs 15.1 lakh, product engineering specialists at Rs 14.8 lakh and blockchain technology experts at a CTC of Rs 14.6 lakhs, according to the report by Randstad, one of the country's leading HR service providers. While blockchain specialists rank fourth, artificial Intelligence/machine learning specialists rank sixth in the list of highest-paid professionals.