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IT Employee Salary Reduced: A Java developer’s post is going viral very fast on the social media platform Reddit. This post has become a new issue of debate in the entire IT sector. In the post, the person has narrated his ordeal, in which his salary has decreased instead of increasing after working for a long time.
According to the post, after working for more than 5 years in TCS, his in hand salary is continuously decreasing. Let us know, why there is so much discussion about this post?
What is the whole matter?
A young man from Mumbai started working as a Java developer in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) after completing his studies from a Tier-3 college in the year 2020. At that time his in-hand salary was around Rs 25 thousand. The surprising thing is that in January 2026, i.e. after working for about five and a half years, his take-home salary has reduced to Rs 22,800.
Generally it is seen that with 5 years of experience in the IT sector, there is a significant increase in salary. But in this case the salary decreased instead of increasing. Due to which this matter has come into discussion.
The employee himself told the reason for this
The employee admitted that in the initial phase of the job, he did not pay enough attention to coding skills and learning new technology. Along with work, he was also preparing for a government job. The effect of which was clearly visible on his office work. With time his performance in projects deteriorated and he repeatedly received low ratings like ‘C’ and ‘D’.
In the IT sector, these ratings mean that the employee is not able to meet the set standards. For this reason the company put him in the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). Even though his job was saved, after this his salary increase and appraisal were completely stopped.
Salary reduced like this
When an employee’s performance rating goes down, the first thing it affects is his variable pay. The company cuts variables according to performance. The same may have happened in the case of the young man also.
At the same time, with time, changes in tax rules and mandatory deductions like Provident Fund (PF) start increasing. If there is no increase in the basic salary and deductions are continuously increasing, then it is natural for the in-hand salary to reduce.
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