Ratan Tata’s TCS CEO earned Rs 260000000 salary, Azim Premji’s Wipro, Narayana Murthy’s Infosys CEO earns…, India’s highest paid IT CEO is…

CEO and MD of TCS, K Krithivasan,  earned Rs 26.52 crores in salary in FY25. It’s hiked by around 4.6 percent from FY24, according to the company’s annual report. This included a base salary of Rs 1.39 crore, Rs 2.12 crores in benefits, perquisites, and allowances, and Rs 23 crores in commissions.

However in FY24, HCLTech’s CEO, C. Vijayakumar, was the highest-paid Indian IT CEO who was earning Rs 84.16 crore. Infosys CEO Salil Parekh earned Rs. 66.25 crores in FY24. Wipro’s newly appointed CEO Srini Pallia got a package of around Rs. 50 crores.

TCS COO Salary

In Q4FY25, TCS appointed Aarthi Subramanian as the chief operating officer (COO) after the retirement of NG Subramaniam (NGS). Subramanian will earn a basic salary of Rs. 10,80,000 per month, from May 1, 2025, with a maximum of Rs. 15,00,000 per month. NGS earlier earned Rs 11.55 crores in FY25, as compared to Rs 26.18 crores in full year FY24, which was also higher than Krithivasan’s package.

TCS Employee Hike

The percentage increase in the median remuneration of employees in FY25 was 6.3 percent. “The average annual increase was in the range of 4.5-7 percent, with top performers receiving double digit increment in India. However, during the course of the year, the total increase is in the range of 5.5-7.5 percent, after accounting for promotions and other event based compensation revisions,” the report stated, adding, “Employees outside India received a wage increase varying from 1.5-6 percent.”

“The increase in remuneration is in line with the market trends in the respective countries. In order to ensure that remuneration reflects the Company’s performance, the performance pay is also linked to organization performance and individual utilization in addition to individual performance,” the report explained.

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