Dataquest ( IT Magazine) and Cyber Media Research (CMR) recently published results of their annual IT survey. This survey typically compares many aspects of different organizations including salaries, pay scales.
This survey does not really reveal the best paymasters as such because the biggest and the most popular IT companies did not participate. This survey does not include data from Infosys, TCS, Cognizant Technology Systems, Oracle, IBM, TCS, Wipro, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Microsoft.
Citrix R&D India was rated as the #1 paymaster and Mahindra Satyam as #2. Below is the list of all the Top 20 companies in the order in which they were ranked.