You have just tossed your graduation cap in the air at a prestigious Australian university, MBA degree in hand, and now you are staring at job offers that could potentially triple what your batchmates back home are earning. Sounds like a dream, right? But for thousands of Indian students, this is becoming reality!

In Australia, MBA salaries don’t follow a fixed rulebook. Two graduates can start in the same year, from similar universities, and still land in completely different salary brackets, simply because of industry choice, experience, negotiation skills, or timing. But for this, you need to understand the system.