Bangalore: The economic condition of the world these days is the most volatile ever. This has mostly affected the job market. People in the age group of 19-30, otherwise known as Gen Y are finding it very difficult to get a full time work.

The most important question Gen Y is asked today is where they get to work and in what industry. And if they get a job, how much can they earn.

An attempt by compensation data and software maker PayScale tries to answer these questions. The company did a study on 500,000 Generation Y workers and collected the data over a period from July 2011 - July 2012. Not all questions were answered by all the participants and thus some values are based on a subset of the sample. The size of the subset is at a minimum of 75,000 workers. The survey is done considering that an employee works for an average of two years in a company.