{"id":1012112,"date":"2026-06-04T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012112"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:29:40","slug":"salil-parekh-remains-highest-paid-it-ceo-with-rs-82-6-crore-compensation-wipros-srinivas-pallia-ranks-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/salil-parekh-remains-highest-paid-it-ceo-with-rs-82-6-crore-compensation-wipros-srinivas-pallia-ranks-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Salil Parekh remains highest-paid IT CEO with Rs 82.6 crore compensation; Wipro\u2019s Srinivas Pallia ranks second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys chief executive officer Salil Parekh remained the highest-paid CEO among the country\u2019s top information technology services companies in FY26, drawing total compensation of Rs 82.6 crore, while Wipro CEO and managing director Srinivas Pallia ranked second despite a decline in his remuneration during the year. <\/p>\n<p>According to Wipro\u2019s annual report released on Wednesday, Pallia\u2019s compensation stood at Rs 49.6 crore in FY26, down 7.4% from Rs 53.6 crore a year earlier. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO K Krithivasan received Rs 28 crore during the year, making him the lowest-paid among the heads of the country\u2019s leading IT services firms that have disclosed compensation figures so far. HCLTech is yet to release its FY26 annual report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys chief executive officer Salil Parekh remained the highest-paid CEO among the country\u2019s top information technology services companies in FY26, drawing total compensation of Rs 82.6 crore, while Wipro CEO and managing director Srinivas Pallia ranked second despite a decline in his remuneration during the year. According to Wipro\u2019s annual report released on Wednesday, Pallia\u2019s compensation stood at Rs 49.6 crore in FY26, down 7.4% from Rs 53.6 crore a year earlier. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO K Krithivasan received Rs 28 crore during the year, making him the lowest-paid among the heads of the country\u2019s leading IT services firms [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012112","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=1012112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012162,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012112\/revisions\/1012162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}