Still, the average entry-level salary for graduates last year was just 600,000 rupees, or $13,226, for jobs in India.

"You have to have a proven track record or be willing to come in at perhaps an entry-level salary."

For the next three years, companies slashed campus recruitment and reduced entry-level salaries.

"My entry-level salary here is $20,500, and that should shoot up."

Meanwhile, the average entry-level salary for teachers nationwide is $19,500.

He said that graduates were being grabbed by companies and entry-level salaries were more than $30,000, compared with $20,000 a year ago.

They help me hear, yes, and for that I am thankful, but imagine how difficult it was to afford them with a young person's entry-level salary.

The entry-level salary for all assistant principals is $61,375.

Many new teachers will start out at entry-level salaries, administrators said, which means some relief for local school budgets.

At on-line publications, entry-level salaries approach $30,000 a year.