Wipro too gives wage hike to its techies

Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd Thursday announced an average wage hike of six-eight percent to its offshore employees and two-three percent to onsite employees from this month.

"In line with the practice of rewarding high performers, we are giving double-digit hikes to our offshore and onsite employees," the company said in a statement here.

Wipro's wage hike announcement was close-on-the heels of its rival Infosys giving a similar hike to its offshore and onsite employees but from July 1.

Wipro's global IT services and products entity has 145,812 employees worldwide, with majority of them based in India.