Salaries way up in Asian IT, articles pointing to brain drain

Something that has piqued my interest in the last year are trends for technology professionals overseas, especially Asia. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I believe it’s important to have an understanding of where the worlds employment markets are…

ZDNet Asia is more frequently featuring stories of significant salary hikes and movement. Local papers and blogs describe brain drain between Asian countries.

This is all interesting because in the dot com bubble days of the late 90’s until about 2003, articles pointed to a brain drain of talent from Asia to the US. Now we’re seeing talent shortages there as countries attempt to equalize the ex/im of intelligent personel. It would make sense that if salaries rise beyond what American firms are willing to pay, we’ll see a reverse brain drain.