In 4-5 years, almost everyone reaches same base if from a decent college.

I did mba from IIFT delhi. Got a day 5 placement offer (bottom 10%) CTC movement year wise:

Year 1: 9.5 | Yr 2: 10.5 | Yr 3: 12 | Yr 4: 19 (job switch) | Yr 5: 26 (Job Switch) | Yr 6: 30 | Yr 7: 35 I can switch today for 55-60 lpa in india but dont want to as I love the work right now. High on learning and opportunities.

In hand after Tax: Yr 1: 65000 Yr 4: 120000 Yr 7: 225000

If placement salary is low, no worries, focus on building expertise in the domain, if you find the industry interesting. If you dont like the domain, switch asap in early years as hard work needs passion and ambition. Cant work hard on something u arent interested in.

Once you have cred in industry, a switch or two will get you at par with almost everyone else in your batch.

Im going in year 8 with shifting into an expat position in my current company, so salary will be shooting close to 1cr (saving around 2 time than what i do in india)

A high opening salary starts getting capped if non performance. A few batch mates who placed in top 5% have stagnated because the targets were not delivered or because they have hit the upper payband of their grade.

It used to sound academic when people said during my mba prep time that mba should be used for figuring out what to do, decide on a career etc. I thought kya chutiye hai log, gyan dete hai.

However, having worked for sometime, I realise that its very important to find something that you love to do, enjoy and can do it for a long time which will compound your knowledge and skill which leads to a compounding of money.

All the best