[Alterlife]

Something significant happened between years 10 and 12. You managed to double your pay.

May I ask what it was?

Incidentally, I'm at exactly the same experience as you and I'll just say I make a lot less.

[myth_buster]

Essentially inflation [0] and weakening currency [1].

[0] https://capitalmind.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Adj-for-In...

[1]https://s.tradingview.com/widgetembed/?frameElementId=tradin...

[pjc50]

They doubled their $ pay several times - this is probably related to just how massive GDP growth has been in India.

https://tradingeconomics.com/india/gdp : the country is 5x more productive than it was in 2002! By comparison the US has only doubled: https://www.statista.com/statistics/188105/annual-gdp-of-the...