Page 2 of 2 Previous Placement GIS Institute also caters to the placement of the participants and analysing the data for the type of jobs the participants got after completion of the course, almost 67% of them joined private organisation whereas 25% opted for government jobs (Figure-4). A majority of this 25% are those who were either sponsored from their departments or came on leave to undergo training in Geo-Informatics, as their job profile demanded expertise on Geo-Informatics and there was no training available in their respective departments. The private organisations in which they were employed were concentrated in the NCR region, except a few, where they were placed either in the southern region or in the west.  Fig. 4 Distribution of participants based on their job type, after completion of the course Software usage One of the aims of this study was to look at the usage of GIS and Remote Sensing software in the Industry and what we could find was that AutoCAD/ AutoCAD Map still dominates the GIS Industry, with as high as 92% of the respondents using it, followed by ArcView 3.x and ERDAS Imagine at 67%. ArcGIS and MapInfo was used by approximately 58% of the respondents whereas other software were equally placed. Figure-5 shows the distribution of different GIS and Remote Sensing software usage across the industry, in the NCR. As per the software usage data available at GISjobs.com, Autodesk products are used by around 59% of the respondents and ESRI products by 67%, while MapInfo is preffered by 40% and ERDAS Imagine by 31%. Salary Recently (February 2007) discussions on a blog was going on whether the Indian GIS Industry is low paying job and whether the people in the Industry, are satisfied with the job or not. We did a check and could find that around 75% of the respondents feel that their job satisfaction level (on a scale of 10, with 10 being the best) is more than 6 and below 9 and only 8% are very dissatisfied with their current job status. Another question we asked was about the “Feel Good” factor of the GIS Industry and 84% are optimistic about the future prospect of the GIS Industry in India and are looking at good growth opportunities in the times to come. Although the salary is proportional to the amount of time you have spent in the industry, your skill sets and other factors, besides academic qualifications and domain knowledge, we could find that around 60% of the respondents were drawing annual salary in the range of INR 1,00,000/- to 3,00,000/- (most of the respondents are in the Industry only for maximum three years, for which the data has been analysed). However, there were some respondents who had prior experience and domain knowledge, are drawing annual salaries in the range of INR 5,00,000/- to 7,00,000/- (Figure-6). Another analysis of the salary data shows that 75% of the respondents are in the annual salary range of INR 60,000/- to 2,00,000/-, which is on the lower side, considering the fact that the skill sets required is intense and expenditure on the training is on the higher side.  Fig. 5 Software usage in the GIS Industry We also compared the salary data at the GISjobs.com website (Salaries are submitted and displayed in the currency unit native to the region the submissions are from) and could find that average annual salary for a personnel of around 5 years of experience is INR 1,65,000/- and for people with around 10 years of experience, it is approximately INR 2,60,000/-. Looking ahead The respondents are very optimistic about the status of GIS Industry in the coming years and think that planning, decision making, Land Information System, Property tax and infrastructure could be the key for growth of the domestic market. Also, with the availability of data through Google Earth and free Google API, the application section will dominate in the coming years and we could see lot of application being developed for mobile devices, besides desktop application, because 3G is going to be dominated by map based services!  Fig. 6 Annual Salary Distribution
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