{"id":1032039,"date":"2026-08-31T07:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032039"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:09:55","slug":"tcs-employees-get-50-70-variable-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/tcs-employees-get-50-70-variable-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS employees get 50-70% variable in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has paid 50-70% of quarterly variable pay to employees in its mid- and senior-level bands for the April-June quarter, according to people aware of the matter. However, the average payout is at least 10-20 percentage points lower than the bonuses rolled out in the preceding two quarters. <\/p>\n<p>The payout comes after a prolonged period of subdued variable compensation at the company. For nearly two years until the first quarter of fiscal 2026, mid- and senior-level employees received only about 20-40% of their eligible variable pay. The payouts began to improve from FY26, reaching 60-80% in each of the previous two quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has paid 50-70% of quarterly variable pay to employees in its mid- and senior-level bands for the April-June quarter, according to people aware of the matter. However, the average payout is at least 10-20 percentage points lower than the bonuses rolled out in the preceding two quarters. The payout comes after a prolonged period of subdued variable compensation at the company. For nearly two years until the first quarter of fiscal 2026, mid- and senior-level employees received only about 20-40% of their eligible variable pay. The payouts began to improve from FY26, reaching 60-80% in each [&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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032039","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=1032039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032051,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032039\/revisions\/1032051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}