How much are people making in their first job straight after college?

Been working with a pre series A level startup for about 3 years being my first job. Paid about 20-25lpa for a full stack role. Engineering + product team is still single digit strength as we are not pureplay tech company. Had a great learning because of a good manager and 0-1 kind of work we did but I am starting to feel stagnated because of following reasons 1. We don't have anything like SDE1, 2 etc because there are very few devs. 1 manager and everyone else is an SDE. The company doesn't intend to hire more for at least an year.. so i won't see any title level promotion or any role that feels senior despite being around for a while 2. Salary. Want to know if I am behind the standard pay because i belong to tier 1.5ish college. Big tech seems to pay more for 3yrs workex as usually people become sde2 by then

Was interviewing at a startup for founder's office role - quoted Tier 1 CTC for the role, the CEO started asking me my college's avg placement(Tier 3) and profiles that are offered, and completely ignored the fact that i had interned for 1+ year in good startups.

Big startups paying similar to 1+ YOE peeps as they do to freshers in the name of their T1 Colleges and same job title. Experienced peeps do bring a lot to the table 🤷‍♂️

You all might obviously guess that I'm speaking about the other two posts in which each of them in their early 20s making 50+ LPA and 70+ LPA respectively. Honestly curious, how do these guys get paid so much? I feel like salaries in IT industry are heavily inflated. I'm from EEE background, trying so hard to find a job in Data field. I've previously worked in my field for 3 years, but the growth seemed pretty less in the long run, hence the switch. Finding a job as a fresher (in IT industry) is so hard man. I'm mainly looking for the startups. They either ask for experience, or the pay is very similar to what I made previously in my field. (which is <10 LPA). Above all, I'm not even getting responses from companies for my applications. So yeah, how do people in their 20s make so much in the IT industry? Is it only FAANGand big corps or applicable to startups as well (like unicorns etc)???

Just curious, does college tier affect the pay you get for the same role (say SDE1) in big tech like Amazon, Microsoft, etc. ?

Grapevine has become like the epitome of people flaunting unrealistic salaries ( the bubble will soon break )🤐,So thought of why not post some realistic ones based upon the Y.o.E range for the IT folks from our knowledge and our interactions with our friends and colleagues. We can exclude very niche skills here and see where everyone stands. I can begin. ( Have considered just the base pay and not the variable or esops/rsu here ) 1-4 Y.o.E : 4-8 Lacs 5-8 Y.o.E : 9-20 Lacs 9-12 Y.o.E : 21-35/40 Lacs 13-16 Y.o.E : 35/40-50+ Lacs

what salary should I expect with experience of 5 years as a data analyst. I have done my masters from US and worked there for 5 years and have recently moved to India and hunting for job. I am just confused that what should I expect as a salary. TIA :-)

As someone from a tier-3 college, is it possible for me to bag a good job and slowly climb the ladder and make 30L, 40L like some of you do? Is this IIT branding so needed even today to get a job at top companies? I have huge regrets for fucking up JEE mains now.