Anonymous salary benchmarks · India
What do people
like you actually
get paid?
Not a range scraped off job posts. Real numbers from real people with your exact role and years of experience — pooled anonymously, so everyone finds out at once.
No signup. No name, no employer, nothing identifiable.
Everyone loses when nobody talks.
Two engineers with the same four years, the same city, the same stack. One earns ₹14L. The other earns ₹31L. Neither of them knows, because in India asking is rude and telling is risky — so the only people with the full picture are the ones paying.
Salary sites don't fix this. They publish a national range so wide it's useless, built from job ads and self-reported guesses, mostly for roles that aren't yours. You end up negotiating against a number you don't believe.
Kitna is the other approach: a small number of honest answers about one specific bracket, and nothing at all until there are enough of them.
How it works
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1
Answer five taps
Role, years, city, company type, fixed CTC. No account, no email, no employer name. It takes half a minute and you can do it on the bus.
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2
You land in a bracket
Say backend engineer, 3–5 years. Your answer joins everyone else's in that exact bracket, stripped of anything that could point back to you.
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3
At 25 answers, it opens
The bracket unlocks for everyone in it at once — median, spread, and where you sit. Until then you see how many are still needed, and nothing else.
The part everyone asks about
Why make you wait for 25?
Because we could show you a number today, and it would be a lie. A "median" drawn from four people is noise wearing a suit — and you'd take it into a salary conversation and get hurt by it.
Twenty-five is roughly where the middle of a distribution stops moving when the next person answers. Below it we'd be guessing. So we don't show anything, and we say so plainly, which costs us users and is worth it.
It also means the only way to open your bracket is to bring people who share it. That's the deal, and it's an honest one: the people who want the answer are the ones who make it exist.
What we know about you
Stored
- Your role, from a fixed list
- An experience band — not a date
- Your city, from a fixed list
- Company type — not the company
- One number: fixed annual CTC
Never collected
- Your name, email or CV
- Your employer
- Your IP address or location
- Tracking cookies or an ad ID
- Anything linking two answers to one person
Published figures are clipped at the 5th and 95th percentile, so the highest and lowest answers in a bracket can't be read off the chart. A phone number is only ever stored if you type one in to be told when your bracket opens — and it's used for exactly that.
Coming to Play Store
Want it on your phone?
Leave a WhatsApp number and we'll message you once — when the Android app is out, or when your bracket opens, whichever comes first. Nothing else, ever. No marketing, no drip, no "just checking in".
Questions
Is it really anonymous?
Yes, structurally — not as a promise. We never ask for a name, an email or an employer, so there is nothing to leak. The five fields we do store are all coarse buckets except the salary figure, and published numbers are clipped so extremes stay hidden.
What counts as CTC?
Fixed annual cash — base plus fixed allowances. Leave out bonus, stock and anything variable. Everyone answering the same way is what makes the comparison mean something.
Why does my bracket say 7 of 25?
Seven people with your role and experience have answered. At 25 it opens for all of you at once. Share it with people who match — they're the ones who can open it.
Can I see other cities or roles?
Once they fill. Brackets start as role plus experience; city becomes its own cut when there are enough answers to split without the numbers getting thin.
Who's behind this?
Kitna is built and run independently, in India. It's free and always will be. It'll carry ads eventually; it will never sell the data, because the data is only worth anything if people trust it enough to answer honestly.