{"id":952690,"date":"2025-08-05T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952690"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:02:08","slug":"hcltech-ceo-to-get-71-hike-in-salary-at-rs-154-crore-in-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/05\/hcltech-ceo-to-get-71-hike-in-salary-at-rs-154-crore-in-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech CEO to get 71% hike in salary at Rs 154 crore in FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The country\u2019s third-largest IT services company HCLTech CEO and MD C Vijayakumar will receive over 71% hike in his remuneration at Rs 154 crore ($18.60 million) for FY26. In FY25, the CEO, who is the highest paid in the IT industry, took home close to Rs 95 crore ($10.85 million), according to the company\u2019s annual report. <\/p>\n<p>His proposed remuneration in the current fiscal include a fixed salary of $2,500,000 per annum and performance bonus of up to $3,500,000 per annum. Earlier in FY22, Vijayakumar earned $16.52 million (about Rs 124 crore) as the amount included a long-term incentive (LTI) of $12.5 million. In FY24, he earned $10.06 million (about Rs 84 crore).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The country\u2019s third-largest IT services company HCLTech CEO and MD C Vijayakumar will receive over 71% hike in his remuneration at Rs 154 crore ($18.60 million) for FY26. In FY25, the CEO, who is the highest paid in the IT industry, took home close to Rs 95 crore ($10.85 million), according to the company\u2019s annual report. His proposed remuneration in the current fiscal include a fixed salary of $2,500,000 per annum and performance bonus of up to $3,500,000 per annum. Earlier in FY22, Vijayakumar earned $16.52 million (about Rs 124 crore) as the amount included a long-term incentive (LTI) [&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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952690","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=952690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}