Bangalore, June 13 : Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd Thursday announced an average wage hike of six-eight percent to its offshore employees and two-three percent to onsite employees from this month.

"In line with the practice of rewarding high performers, we are giving double-digit hikes to our offshore and onsite employees," the company said in a statement here.

Wipro's wage hike announcement was close-on-the heels of its rival Infosys giving a similar hike to its offshore and onsite employees but from July 1.

Wipro's global IT services and products entity has 145,812 employees worldwide, with majority of them based in India. (IANS)