Question: how and why IT firms pay huge salaries to their employees? as is compared to other industry types..such as manufacturing, legal etc

Answer: IT cos pay huge to their employees because the personnel costs are the only costs in the software industry. And probably they also have to recruit the brightest minds in the world so those brilliant minds milk the cos as much as they can.
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