This is only the variable salary that is getting reduced.I am not sure how much percentage a variable salary in IT profession to the technical guy is given because i believe it will not be much as it is more prominent in sales and marketing division.The companies hardly give these variables to Technical guys as they always keep on crying for losses and the second thing they will do is a cost cutting and interestingly the first cost cutting the HR guy(I hate some of these so called intelectuals) will do is to ask the staff to recycle the pages for printing as if he saves millions in these and will revive the company from a major brink of loss.