By Nikhil Cariappa LinkedIn has launched ‘LinkedIn Salary’, a tool which analyses and publishes salary data from the Indian job market. The tool will publish data relating to bonus and equity payments for specific job titles along with years of experience, industry, company size, location, and education level. It has been collecting salary data in the Indian market for the last two months. However, the data will only be available from cities where LinkedIn has the most number of members, it added. LinkedIn Salary will have the following features A detailed distribution of base salary and annual bonuses for different industries Top paying region for each industry along with the number of openings Members with free accounts can access LinkedIn Salary only by providing data about their own salaries, while premium members don’t have to share this information The tool would be particularly useful for students who are planning to pursue higher education or a bachelor’s degree According to LinkedIn, the top 5 highest paid regions in India are Bengaluru Mumbai Delhi NCR (Including Gurugram and Noida) Hyderabad Chennai The top 5 highest paid industries are Hardware and Networking Software & IT services Consumer goods Healthcare Finance LinkedIn now claims to have 575 million users 20 million company listings over 15 million active job listings LinkedIn's recent developments LinkedIn launched data analytics platform Talent Insights to help employers keep track of labour market trends LinkedIn launched ‘Resume Builder’ in India, a tool which helps users build single click resumes using LinkedIn profiles as…
