General management and sales and marketing roles comprised 30 per cent of the total offers while 22 per cent was rolled out in product management, IT/analytics and operations domains. Technical freshers who join CISCO can earn up to a whopping 10 lakhs per annum as their first pay. Intel is a good paymaster and is known for its year on year appraisal and salary hikes. The starting salary per month would lie somewhere at Rs 40,000. "Such prize offers demonstrate the high value of the education imparted in the institute and our students' remarkable skills and capabilities," IIM Calcutta Director Prof. For a fresher who joins Intel, average salary range would be 3 to 6 lakhs per annum. Several established names such as Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Arga Investment Management, Gaja Capital, JP Morgan Chase and others extended top roles to the 55th batch of the institute. Marquee finance, private equity and venture capital firms made 83 offers.