To earn a $200/month salary is to earn 16 600 INR/month. As somebody who has lived in Rajasthan (Udaipur for those who are interested), that is an actually reasonable estimate, albeit on the higher side.
But no security guard in Jaipur is earning 10 000 INR/month. Even in Mumbai, one of the most expensive to-live-in cities in India, the security guard would earn less than 25 000 INR/month (unless they happen to work in an especially posh neighbourhood).
And where did you get that 60x number? That would work out to be roughly 1.2 CR INR/month, which would put you in the top 0.08% of all Indians [1]. I can assure you that no "mid career middle management professional" is earning that.
Even if I take your lowest guess, 30x, that is still more money than what almost all mid career professionals would earn in 10 years. I am convinced that you've never set foot in India.
I live in India my guy. Lived here all my wife. I’m 35 years old. Every single person in mu cohort has a package in excess of 50L ($60,000). The top earner among my friends group paid 27L in just income tax last year.
And my cohort didn’t even go to top institutes. My cousins who did go to IITs and IIMs are making that much and more in their 20s.
I’m convinced you haven’t stepped foot in India in years because you don’t know how much salaries for skilled white collar workers have increased in the last 3-4 years.
Anybody who has lived in India will know exactly how wrong your numbers are. Saying that "every single person in my cohort has a package in excess of 50L" does not make you sound any more credible.
I’m talking about metro-specific numbers, especially in Gurgaon/Noida and Bengaluru. The income inequality across a specific narrow band of tech-literate white collar workers and the blue collar workers who serve them.
To earn a $200/month salary is to earn 16 600 INR/month. As somebody who has lived in Rajasthan (Udaipur for those who are interested), that is an actually reasonable estimate, albeit on the higher side.
But no security guard in Jaipur is earning 10 000 INR/month. Even in Mumbai, one of the most expensive to-live-in cities in India, the security guard would earn less than 25 000 INR/month (unless they happen to work in an especially posh neighbourhood).
And where did you get that 60x number? That would work out to be roughly 1.2 CR INR/month, which would put you in the top 0.08% of all Indians [1]. I can assure you that no "mid career middle management professional" is earning that.
Even if I take your lowest guess, 30x, that is still more money than what almost all mid career professionals would earn in 10 years. I am convinced that you've never set foot in India.
[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/calculator.cms