{"id":923898,"date":"2025-04-21T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923898"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:52:00","slug":"cognizant-ceo-ravi-kumar-sees-11-pay-hike-takes-home-16-1-million-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/21\/cognizant-ceo-ravi-kumar-sees-11-pay-hike-takes-home-16-1-million-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar sees 11% pay hike, takes home $16.1 million in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant Technology Solutions has disclosed in its latest regulatory filing that its Chief Executive Officer, Ravi Kumar, received a total annual compensation of $16.1 million for 2024, marking an 11% increase from the previous year. <\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Kumar\u2019s total compensation stood at $22.6 million, boosted by a significant one-time equity award granted at the time of his appointment as CEO. Excluding that, his 2024 earnings reflect a steady rise driven by performance incentives and stock vesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant Technology Solutions has disclosed in its latest regulatory filing that its Chief Executive Officer, Ravi Kumar, received a total annual compensation of $16.1 million for 2024, marking an 11% increase from the previous year. In 2023, Kumar\u2019s total compensation stood at $22.6 million, boosted by a significant one-time equity award granted at the time of his appointment as CEO. Excluding that, his 2024 earnings reflect a steady rise driven by performance incentives and stock vesting.<\/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-923898","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\/923898","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=923898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}