Run the numbers before you commit
Pick a course, choose a realistic college tier, and see the year-by-year salary projection, total education cost, and how many years until the investment pays back. All numbers calibrated against tier-wise placement data on our course pages.
Strong state / good private / top 25%
Year-1 salary
₹6 L LPA
At 5 years
₹11 L LPA
Total cost
₹16.5 L
ROI breakeven
3 yrs
These are estimates for planning, not a promise — see the full breakdown below.
Salary trajectory — Year 0 to 15 — Tier 2 college
AI / Automation risk
High
AI coding tools reduce simple junior coding work. Freshers need better debugging, project thinking, and product understanding. Copy-paste coding roles are becoming weaker.
Job stability
High
Indian tech saw 50,000+ layoffs across 2023–2025 (layoffs.fyi, ETtech). Both service co bench-heavy roles and startup product teams were cut. Even CS grads from Tier-1 colleges have seen offers rescinded.
Remote work
Hybrid
Work-life balance: Good. Demand: Very High.
If this doesn't work out — alternate paths
Plan B matters. These are reasonable lateral exits if the B.Tech CStrack gets blocked (entrance-exam failure, market shift, fit mismatch). Most students don't end up in the field they started.
Tier comparison — B.Tech CS salary at 5 years
Tier 1
Tier 2
Your pick
Tier 3
Tier 1 vs Tier 3 spread shows why the college decision matters more than the degree choice itself. Off-campus differentiation (portfolio, internships, networking) can bridge some of this — but not all.
How these numbers are estimated. Year-1 salary uses the tier-wise placement average from our course trust layer when available, otherwise scales the published fresher salary by tier. Annual growth is compound, asymptoting to the published senior salary over 15 years. Take-home is assumed at 75% of CTC for ROI. Real outcomes vary by individual performance, sector cycles, layoffs, and AI-driven role compression — these projections are starting points for conversation, not promises.
What this simulator actually calculates
The simulator projects an earnings band — not a promise — from three inputs: the course, the college tier, and years of experience. It exists to make one comparison honest: what you spend on education versus what the median outcome actually pays back.
Where the numbers come from
Salary bands use the same tiered data as the course pages: placement reports, salary aggregates like AmbitionBox and Glassdoor, and public pay scales, each cited with a date and confidence level on the course page. The simulator interpolates within those bands — it does not invent numbers, and it deliberately uses medians rather than the highest packages colleges advertise.
What the breakeven means
Breakeven is the point where cumulative earnings cross total education cost (fees plus hostel and living costs). A long breakeven is not automatically bad — MBBS has a long one and remains a strong career — but a long breakeven on a weak-tier private college is the pattern that traps families in debt.
What it cannot model
Your city, negotiation, economic cycles, and how good you actually become at the work — these move real salaries more than any calculator input. Use the simulator to compare paths against each other, not to predict your own payslip.
All figures are estimates in today's rupees based on sourced ranges. See the methodology page for how each band is built and how confident we are in it.