{"id":955253,"date":"2025-08-16T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955253"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:00:24","slug":"cognizant-announces-salary-hikes-amid-uncertainty-in-it-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/cognizant-announces-salary-hikes-amid-uncertainty-in-it-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant announces salary hikes amid uncertainty in IT industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT major Cognizant on Thursday announced merit-based salary hikes for 80% of its eligible employees effective November 1. The news is a positive turn for the IT industry, which has been beset by uncertainty and resorted to layoffs. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian-origin, US-headquartered company said its highest performers will be given payouts in the high-single-digit percentage range. This comes after the company deferred the increments by four months last year, offering them in August, with hikes ranging from 1-5%. This year, the raise has been delayed until November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT major Cognizant on Thursday announced merit-based salary hikes for 80% of its eligible employees effective November 1. The news is a positive turn for the IT industry, which has been beset by uncertainty and resorted to layoffs. The Indian-origin, US-headquartered company said its highest performers will be given payouts in the high-single-digit percentage range. This comes after the company deferred the increments by four months last year, offering them in August, with hikes ranging from 1-5%. This year, the raise has been delayed until November.<\/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-955253","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\/955253","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=955253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}