{"id":1008675,"date":"2026-05-19T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008675"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:40:49","slug":"tcs-announces-6-8-salary-hikes-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/tcs-announces-6-8-salary-hikes-to-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS announces 6-8% salary hikes to employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services has rolled out salary hikes of 6-8% for employees in India, even as workers across the company continue to report lower variable pay, tighter compensation policies and growing pressure linked to AI-led productivity targets. <\/p>\n<p>The hikes, effective from April 2026, mark a return to TCS\u2019s regular appraisal cycle after delays last year caused by weak global demand and macroeconomic uncertainty. Top-rated employees received increments of more than 10%, while lower-rated staff saw hikes of around 2-3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services has rolled out salary hikes of 6-8% for employees in India, even as workers across the company continue to report lower variable pay, tighter compensation policies and growing pressure linked to AI-led productivity targets. The hikes, effective from April 2026, mark a return to TCS\u2019s regular appraisal cycle after delays last year caused by weak global demand and macroeconomic uncertainty. Top-rated employees received increments of more than 10%, while lower-rated staff saw hikes of around 2-3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008733,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008675\/revisions\/1008733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}