Agile and Scrum

Salary Report
 Table of Contents

Scrum and Agile Practice 1

What is the Relationship between Agile Development & Scrum Development? 2

Salary Review For Software Developers with Scrum and Agile Skill (USA) 2

Salary Review by Years of Experience (USA) 2

Salary Review by Skills (Scrum, USA) 5

Salary Review by Location (USA) 6

Salary Review by Company (USA) 7

Salary Review (India). 8

Salary Review by Years of Experience (India) 8

Salary Review by Skills (Scrum, India) 9

Salary Review by Location (India) 10

Report Summary 11

References 11

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 1 Scrum and Agile Practice

Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development methodology

that is very useful for managing product development. It describes "an elastic,
holistic product development strategy where a design or development team
works as a singular unit to attain a collective purpose". The practice involves
checking expectations of the "customary, sequential approach" to product
design or development, and permits development teams to evolve and
improvise by encouraging physical co-location or close and intense online
collaboration of all team members, including regular face-to-face
communication and collaboration among all project members.

A vital element of Scrum is its acknowledgment that during a project the

clients can amend project needs and deliverables and that unexpected issues
cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or planned manner. Thus,
Scrum adopts a pragmatic approachaccepting that the problem at hand
cannot be fully summarized or defined, concentrating instead on maximizing
the team's capability to deliver swiftly and of course respond to emerging
requirements.

A Scrum masters major assignment is ensuring that the commonplace task

associated to software development are performed in a timely and effective
fashion. They aid a design and development team to identify and eliminate
obstacles that could prevent the smooth progress of software development,
build healthy and productive relationships with the program owners and
application users and they ensure the successful delivery of all tasks and
projects. Furthermore, they are placed in charge of assisting the team by
championing daily scrums, monitor task progress, and perform periodic
performance appraisals.

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 2 What is the Relationship between Agile
Development and Scrum Development?
People who want to start a career in Scrum or Agile often ask if there is a
relationship between Scrum Practice and Agile Practice. In summary, Scrum is an
iterative and incremental agile software development method for handling
software projects . It is a type of Agile approach which is used widely in
software developments. It can also be referred to as a specific flavor of Agile.
However Agile methodology can be applied to product development in other
industries apart from the software industry but Scrum is specific to software
development.

3 Salary Review for Software Developers with

Scrum and Agile Skill (USA)
A Software Development Manager with Agile skills earns about $120,202 (One
hundred and twenty thousand, two hundred and two dollars) per year while on
the average a ScrumMaster receives an annual package of $78,139 (Seventy
Eight thousand , one hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars) per year.

4 Salary Review by Years of Experience (USA)

Experience is a significant factor when it comes to remuneration for staff with
Scrum and Agile Skills. Available figures indicate that entry level staff can expect
a minimum of $111,000 (One hundred and eleven thousand dollars), midcareer
staff can expect a minimum of $123,000 ( One hundred and twenty three thou

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 000 ( One hundred and twenty three thousand dollars), experienced career
persons can expect $131,000 (One hundred and thirty one thousand dollars).
The table below indicates the prevalent figures for each career level , based on
years of experience.

160000

150000
Salary (USD)

140000

130000

120000

110000

100000
5 10 15 20 25 30

Years

Table 1.0 Salary Review by Experience (Agile Skills)

Scrum masters at Entry level can expect to receive a minimum of $72,000

(Seventy two thousand dollars) as pay package , Mid Career staff can receive a
minimum of $95,000 (Ninety five thousand dollars) while experienced staff can
look forward $104,000(One hundred and four thousand dollars) based on the
location and company where the staff works.

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 150000
Salary (USD)

125000

75000

50000

25000

5 10 15 20 25 30

Years

Table 2.0 Salary Review by Experience (Scrum Master)

5 Salary Review by Skills (Scrum, USA)

Skills that affect the salary scale include: Scrum Master , Project Management and
Agile. Professionals with these skill sets enjoy salaries above the national average
of $120,202 (One hundred and twenty thousand, two hundred and two dollars).

The table below shows more information.

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 30%

25%

Scrum Master
20%

Project Management
Salary Difference from Average 15%

10%

Agile
5%

0%

-5%

-10%

-15%

-20%

-25%
Scrum

-30%

Skills

Table 3.0 Salary Review by Skills (Scrum , USA)

6 Salary Review by Location (USA)

Staff working in San Francisco and Boston enjoy higher pay packages according
to available figures as Scrum masters in those locations enjoy a higher pay
margin of 35% and 25% respectively above the national average. At the other end
of the spectrum workers in Austin and Denver have to settle for lower pay slips
with 6% and 4% below the national average respectively.

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 This trend and figures are also replicated for staff utilizing agile skills.
San Francisco
35%

Boston
30%

New York
25%

20%
Houston

15%
Salary Difference from Average

Washington

10%

San Diego
5%

0%

Portland
-5%

Denver
Austin
-10%
Minneapolis

-15%

-20%

-25%

-30%

Location

Table 4.0 Salary Review by Location (Scrum and Agile)

7 Salary Review by Company (USA)

Available figures show that employer salaries for Software Development Manager
with Agile skills in Amazon can be as high as $177,000 (One hundred and seventy
seven thousand dollars) while workers in IBM can earn as much as $139,000 (One
hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars).

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 8 Salary Review (India).
Statistics show that the median salary for a ScrumMaster is Rs 1,053,081 per year
in India. Popular skills that make the difference in pay for this job in most
scenarios are Agile and ScrumMaster.

9 Salary Review by Years of Experience (India)

The figures depicted below indicates the average salary for different career levels
(Entry Level to Experienced).

1400000
Average Salary (Rupees)

1200000

1000000

800000

600000

400000

200000

5 10 15 20 25

Years

Table 6.0 Salary Review by Years of Experience (Scrum).

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 1600000

1400000

Average Salary (Rupees)

1200000

1000000

800000

600000

400000

200000

5 10 15 20 25

Years

Table 7.0 Salary Review by Years of Experience (Agile).

10 Salary Review by Skills (Scrum, India)

Skill sets are important in this profession as the figures below indicate that
workers with Agile and Scrum Master Skill sets enjoy salaries that are 67% and
32% above the average national salary scale.

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 32%
Scrum
Master
67%
Agile

Table 8.0 Salary Review by Skills

11 Salary Review by Location (India)

Available figures indicate that the average salary for Agile is highest in Chennai
while the lowest figure is from Hyderabad.

Bangalore

Pune

Mumbai
Location

Noida

Gurgaon

Chennai

Hyderabad

200000 400000 600000 800000 1000000 1200000 1400000

Average Salary (Rupees)

Table 9.0 Salary Review by Location

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 12 Report Summary
Scrum Practice is more prevalent with the men than women in India and USA as
the figures below suggest.

14%
Female 68%
Male

INDIA USA
86%
Male 32%
Male

Table 10.0 Ratio of Men/Women in Scrum

13 References
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=ScrumMaster/Salary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%29

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11469358/what-is-the-dif-
ference-between-scrum-and-agile-development

http://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Skill=Agile/Salary#by_City

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Agile

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