Wealth Creation Potential - Comparing Infosys and Chandrasekhar

I hope this is one blog my boss wouldn’t read.

There are times when I keep wondering what am I being paid for? There seems to be a tight race between the corporates to reward the most mediocre efforts. More so in the BPO industry where the reward/hour rate is a function of the service offered. Let me explain you the context.

Some days my work reduces to playing sudoku on the internet and ogling at heroines on the web. The virtual presence of fairer gender is good filler to my otherwise state of ennui. There are the remaining days where my work is hardly a couple of hours per day. But I have taken a positive from this seemingly frustrating situation. I realize when my firm is paying everyone the same salary, I must be generating an awesome value add per hour to the firm. In effect, I could be adding as much value per hour as our Chairman. Perhaps!

After some number crunching, I just realized that I am being paid $15per hour of service I render at my firm. A person working sixteen hours per day at the same wage rate would earn a whopping $2.16 Million – round about what our Chairman would earn!

Another interesting observation is that Infosys charges $20 per hour of offshore service rendered. Out of which $2 is paid to the employees at the hourly rate; The remaining $18 is Infy’s income. Simply putting, I am creating as much wealth as Infosys per hour. Not a bad societal contribution. Ohh guilt! Where art thou?