{"id":952230,"date":"2025-08-04T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952230"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:36:08","slug":"hcltech-ceo-c-vijayakumar-out-earns-tcs-infosys-heads-in-fy25-with-10-85-million-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/04\/hcltech-ceo-c-vijayakumar-out-earns-tcs-infosys-heads-in-fy25-with-10-85-million-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar out-earns TCS, Infosys heads in FY25 with $10.85 million paycheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar earned $10.85 million (about Rs 94.6 crore) in the financial year 2024-25, making him one of the highest-paid executives in the Indian IT sector and surpassing the earnings of chiefs at larger rivals TCS and Infosys.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s board has also approved an over 71% increase in his current remuneration to $18.6 million (about Rs 154 crore) for the next financial year, according to the company&#8217;s annual report.<\/p>\n<p>Vijayakumar&#8217;s FY25 compensation places him ahead of his peers at India&#8217;s top two IT firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar earned $10.85 million (about Rs 94.6 crore) in the financial year 2024-25, making him one of the highest-paid executives in the Indian IT sector and surpassing the earnings of chiefs at larger rivals TCS and Infosys. The company&#8217;s board has also approved an over 71% increase in his current remuneration to $18.6 million (about Rs 154 crore) for the next financial year, according to the company&#8217;s annual report. Vijayakumar&#8217;s FY25 compensation places him ahead of his peers at India&#8217;s top two IT firms.<\/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-952230","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\/952230","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=952230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}