bengaluru pays the highest salaries and it is hardware networking professionals not techies who bag the best pay says a linkedin salary study based on the data on its platform the average weighted compensation in bengaluru is rs 12 lakh a year followed by mumbai and delhincr at rs 9 lakh each report shilpa phadnis and avik dashardware networking jobs fetch about rs 15 lakh a year weighted average as per importance while software jobs fetch about rs 12 lakh and consumer jobs rs 9 lakh making up the three most paying industries in indiathe hardware jobs being paid highly are not the traditional ones but those in the area of chip design and newage networking experts said shivananda koteshwar head of design rd at semiconductor tools company synopsys india said in the area of vlsi verylargescale integration salaries have exploded because a lot of chip design implementation has moved to india vlsi is the process of creating an integrated circuit ic by combining hundreds of thousands of transistors or devices into a single chip he said this was particularly true for physical design engineers just two years ago their salaries were 3times their years of experience today it is 45 to 5 times the experience koteshwar saidon networking v c gopalratnam cio international cisco said the network is at the centre of a maelstrom of change taking place in enterprises and forms the foundation of digital transformation as massive amounts of data continue to be distributed ever more widely customers are facing challenges around complexity and security to address this there is a lot of innovation happening in the networking space and it is increasingly becoming more sophisticated and as the sophistication of networks increase the demand for networking roles and skills are increasing he saidin software new digital technologies are once again creating a fresh spiral of salary increases ai and machine learning salaries are exploding viral shah cofounder and chief executive of julia computing said bilingual programmers those who are not only good at programming but also understand a domain deeply are also being paid handsomely the domain expertise may be business engineering finance scientific or medical as an example an ai programmer who has a biomedical engineering background is more likely to build the next generation medical device he saidthe consumer packaged goods industry including those like hindustan unilever pg and britannia may not where it once used to be but ritesh rana vice president hr of britannia told toi that leading companies in the segment typically hire from toptier bschools and are still amongst the most sought after employers on campus the growth opportunities and span of control offered by this sector are typically way more intense exciting and broader than any other sector as a result the sector forms an attractive talent pool and a poaching ground so maintaining a competitive compensation structure becomes imperative he saidin the linkedin study bengaluru emerged as the city where the weighted average