To Indian girls: What is the salary package that you are expecting from your future or would - be husband?

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I have to go Anonymous to hide identity of me and my friend as I am going to reveal things that I should not publicly.

This answer is rated as H for HONEST. ( read in breaking bad's sound :D brutally honest )

My background :  I am a boy working in good software company in Bengaluru at age of 22 and package of twice what you have mention in question. My one female friend is of same college and have a package of what you have written in question.

and I have asked this question to my female friend and what I understood here is

Numbers are relative but numbers matter.

Let me explain why. To all girls who have written here that package don't matter  comes in 1% i.e very very very rare or lying or thinking that it doesn't matter but when time comes, it will matter for them. No offence to those. There is nothing wrong in any kind of personal expectation when it comes to marriage.

I have family responsibility. I need to take care of my parents financially and  there are some other things as well that I need to take care of financially. So my friend told me that even if you have this good package, you have some responsibility and that can be "deal breaker" for some girls. Few girls do desire completely independent groom without family responsibility.

As far as for male ego, there is some weird ( read by born ) mentality in minds of Indian girls that ALL MALE HAVE EGO when it comes to earning. I mean seriously even sane and very practical girls also believe this. I am really not sure what is root cause here. So many girls do want their groom to have at least equal package. here I don't realize one thing is that package is not constant. It can go high or less for any of you. In marriage life of 40 year, it can end up in any situation when girl or boy is earning more which may not be case when you got married.

So coming back to your question. What I have observed is that if you are above 10+ LPA , you should be good to go with 90% girl's cut-off. I am sorry If it sounded like a business deal but again in India marriage is almost similar to business deal.

Now come to those 10% elite girls who are earning like crazy. There will be exceptions but I don't think so any girl earning high will settle down with guy earning half of them ( even if guy's package is quite good on average ). Reason  they will tell you that it is male-ego. But you know what is actual reason, it is their ego and high-level of satisfaction. They know they are rare and come in elite group, they will not settle down for any case as you know there are enough number of guys who are earning equal or have rich parents.

P.S - No offence to any one. Question is generalized that's why Answer is also generalized.