Photos | Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs In India In 2022
Top 10 highest paid CEOs in India 2022: The list features names like Rajeev Bajaj, N Chandrasekaran, Mukesh Ambani and Pawan Munjal. Have a look at the full list here.
New Delhi: After the re-appointment of Infosys CEO Salil Parekh to the top management post in the country, he has become one of the highest-paid CEOs in India. According to reports, Parekh’s salary has been hiked by 88 per cent to nearly Rs 80 crore per annum. The company has justified the hike in Parekh’s salary by saying that he has played a key role in the company’s leading growth over the years.
Here is a look at the Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs in India
Pawan Munjal (Photo: Twitter)
1. Pawan Munjal, Hero Motocorp
Pawan Munjal is the Chairman, CEO and Managing Director (MD) of Hero Motocorp. According to a report by Mint, his salary in FY20 was Rs 84.59 crore.
Salil Parekh (Photo: Twitter)
2. Salil Parekh, Infosys
Parekh is the CEO and MD of tech giant Infosys. He has been re-appointed to the role. According to media reports, his salary may total up to Rs 71 crore in 2021-22.
Gurnani is the CEO and MD of Tech Mahindra. He earned Rs 28.57 crore in 2020, according to ET.
SN Subrahmanyan (Photo: Twitter)
7. SN Subrahmanyan, Larsen & Toubro
Subrahmanyan is the CEO and MD of Larsen & Toubro. In 2019-20, he took-home salary of Rs 27.17 crore. However, he cut his package by nearly half during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rajesh Gopinathan (Photo: Twitter)
8. Rajesh Gopinathan, TCS
Gopinath has been CEO of Tata Consultancy Services since 2017. His salary in 2021-22 was Rs 25.7 crore.
Sidhartha Lal (Photo: Twitter)
9. Sidhartha Lal, Eicher Motors Ltd
Lal is the head of Eicher Motors Ltd. In 2020, his salary was Rs 19.21 crore.
Mukesh Ambani (Photo: Twitter)
10. Mukesh Ambani
Ambani is the owner of Reliance Industries. He has a 44 per cent stake in the company. In 2020, his salary was Rs 15 crore.
Wipro's Managing Director, Thierry Delaporte is the highest-paid CEO in India. As per data reported in March 2023, the 56-year-old took home ₹82.4 crore for FY23 (April 2022-March 2023).
Thierry Delaporte is also the highest paid CEO in the Indian IT sector, with a heftier salary package than HCL Technologies and TCS executives. According to the company filings, Delaporte has a salary package of over ₹82 crore per annum. HT launches Crick-it, a one stop destination to catch Cricket, anytime, anywhere.
Every time the subject of CEOs of multinational firms of Indian descent is brought up, Sundar Pichai's name stands out as being in a league of its own. He graduated from IIT Kharagpur and became the CEO of Google in 2015. In December 2019, he was named CEO of Alphabet Inc, Google's parent company.
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Elon Musk. Elon Musk, the controversial Tesla boss keeps bumping in and out of the No. 1 spot of richest CEO. His acquisition of Twitter (now called X) dropped his net worth somewhat, but as of March 10, 2023, he was back in that slot, according to Forbes.
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Suhas Gopinath (born 4 November 1986 in Bangalore) is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Globals Inc., a multinational IT company. He became CEO at the age of 17, three years after founding the company. In 2017, he founded the start-up ShopsUp.
HDFC Bank. One of the biggest banks in India by market capitalisation,² HDFC Bank has a huge network of branches and ATMs across the country. It also has a large number of accounts to choose from, including current accounts for businesses, salary accounts, deposit accounts and investment products.
In 2022, Barry McCarthy was the highest paid CEO in the United States, with compensation totaling just over 168.07 million U.S. dollars. Tim Cook of Apple was the second highest paid, at nearly 100,000 U.S. dollars.
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