salary growth within the same currency, not across. In fact, even that doesn't make much sense - so all they can realistically look at is the growth and if it is a reasonable increase.
For e.g. in the US, your salary growth per year could be as little as 2% and could be higher as in 7-8%, but a good engineer in India could have annual increments of even 40%-60% (yep, happens quite a lot). But that doesn't mean that the one in India is better than the guy in the US, or if his/her career progression is somehow more impressive - it's just how the local industry can compensate from its own base salaries. If you looked at the absolute numbers, the numbers in most of the developing nations around the world would be really low compared to the US.
Bottomline - don't worry and don't lie.
batchgmat wrote:
I agree with everyone here, but I did hear the director of Wharton state that they look at salary as one indicator of career progress. (
https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/mba_pr ... layer.html, its the slide titled, "Admissions Process Professional Development").