{"id":985326,"date":"2026-01-14T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985326"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:33:34","slug":"indian-it-companies-raise-fresher-salaries-for-elite-ai-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/indian-it-companies-raise-fresher-salaries-for-elite-ai-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian IT companies raise fresher salaries for elite AI roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian IT companies are finally breaking their long-standing fresher pay ceiling. After years of entry-level salaries stuck near Rs 8 lakh, top firms like Infosys and HCLTech are now offering Rs 20 lakh-plus packages for select graduates with AI, data and deep-tech skills. <\/p>\n<p>HCLTech has reworked its fresher compensation model. The company is offering Rs 18 lakh to Rs 22 lakh per annum to what it internally calls an \u201celite cadre\u201d of engineers specialising in data and AI, digital engineering, cybersecurity and enterprise skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian IT companies are finally breaking their long-standing fresher pay ceiling. After years of entry-level salaries stuck near Rs 8 lakh, top firms like Infosys and HCLTech are now offering Rs 20 lakh-plus packages for select graduates with AI, data and deep-tech skills. HCLTech has reworked its fresher compensation model. The company is offering Rs 18 lakh to Rs 22 lakh per annum to what it internally calls an \u201celite cadre\u201d of engineers specialising in data and AI, digital engineering, cybersecurity and enterprise skills.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985326","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=985326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}