Infosys, India’s second-largest IT services exporter, has reported a record 130 India-based employees earning an annual compensation exceeding ₹1 crore for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026.
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Disclosed in the company’s latest annual report, this milestone represents a notable 16% year-on-year increase from the 112 high earners recorded in FY25, marking an all-time high for the firm’s elite compensation bracket.
Infosys Stock Incentives and Talent Retention Fuel the Surge
The sharp rise in high-income earners within the organization is primarily attributed to strategic compensation revisions and changes in the perquisite value of stock incentives (ESOPs) granted in previous years and exercised during FY26.
Improved retention of top-tier talent also played a critical role in stabilizing this cohort.
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Only 22 high earners exited the company during FY26, a sharp decline compared to the roughly 67 exits witnessed over the previous two fiscal years combined.
This reflects a deliberate pivot by leadership to protect its core executive and engineering leadership from external poaching.
Notably, this metric tracking full-year India-based employees excludes executive personnel who joined or exited mid-year, as well as the company’s top 10 executive leaders, whose individual remuneration details the company separately itemizes to ensure reporting transparency.
Among those separate disclosures, Chief Executive Officer Salil Parekh’s total compensation rose by 2.45% to ₹82.6 crore for FY26, which is 742 times the median employee remuneration of ₹11.13 lakh.
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Resilience Amid AI and Automation Disruption
The expansion of the “crorepati club” comes at a defining moment for the Indian IT sector, which faces ongoing uncertainties due to the rapid advancement of generative AI, automation, and shifting software development paradigms.
Despite structural headwinds, Infosys demonstrated robust financial performance, logging a 10.2% increase in net profit to ₹29,440 crore on the back of a 10% rise in operational revenue to ₹1.78 lakh crore.
To support this operational scale, employee benefit expenses surged by 11% to ₹95,094 crore.
The company closed the fiscal year with a standalone headcount of 252,753 and a consolidated workforce of 328,594—achieving a net addition of 5,000 workers while assuring stakeholders of total workforce stability moving into FY27.
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Sahiba Sharma
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