Expected Salary for 15+Years Experience IT QA/QE Professional. Mix of both Manual Testing & Automation with latter being around max 2-3 yrs

If a person is between 16-18 years experience what are his best options considering he has little automation experience as people may expect around 5-8 yrs minimum experience on automation also hardly getting any calls . Stuck in mid life crisis with 16-17 LPA package in same company.