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In terms of salaries - what I observed was that for freshers, salaries ranged from anywhere between 25-35k. This year they has been some increase in this. I've heard freshers getting 7 L per annum, but not sure if it's true. At lateral levels, the situation is very different, as there are no set standards for A1, A2, A3. Which results in sometimes A3 earning lesser than A2. For laterals, it boils down to your last drawn retainer.
It's a pools systems there - which kind of feels like a mechanism to deal with shortfall on the real estate p