Salaries: Operations manager

Employee compensation is the primary metric driving cost competitiveness among outsourcing locations. Managers are typically in small numbers in outsourcing operations, but their costs can be significant. Relative to US employees, they are significantly more expensive than junior or mid-level employees.

Summarized below are the relative salaries for operations managers with 10-20 years experience in the top outsourcing countries. Salaries are expressed as a percentage of comparable resources in the United States. Data is primarily sourced from PayScale, a market leader in salary benchmarking.