Infosys CEO Salil Parekh's pay for FY26 increases by 2.45% to Rs 82.6 crore

Bengaluru: Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh took home Rs 82.6 crore in total remuneration for the fiscal year 2026, a 2.45 per cent rise compared to Rs 80.62 crore in FY25. In FY24, Parekh earned Rs 66.25 crore.

According to the company's FY26 annual report, the CEO earned Rs 50.75 crore pertaining to exercise of 2,72,400 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) under the 2015 plan and 64,690 RSUs under the 2019 plan during fiscal 2026.

The report mentioned that Parekh’s remuneration was 742 times the median remuneration of employees during FY26.

The average annual increase in the salaries of employees was 11 per cent in India and employees outside India received a wage increase in line with the market trends in the respective countries, the annual report stated.

In his letter to shareholders, Chairman Nandan M Nilekani said more than three years after the launch of Generative AI, "We can unequivocally say that Infosys is more relevant than ever, and we have a bright future in front of us."

The shift from predictable machines to probabilistic ones is as consequential as the speed of adoption, and it is reshaping what the work now requires.

Cybersecurity must be prioritised, and data protected per company rules and other governance policies. There is plenty to be done as we address the deployment gap in our large enterprise customers, he added.

He also stated that the AI revolution has also created an extreme sense of urgency in customers for legacy modernisation, eliminating data silos, addressing AI-identified cyber vulnerabilities, and in general reducing and eliminating the technical debt accumulated over decades.

"The preference will be to build versus buy for software. All this creates significant opportunities. The biggest prize will be how we meld the world of models and agents with the traditional deterministic systems that currently dominate the enterprise. While the new capabilities bring intelligence, simplified user experience and extreme automation, the highly scalable and reliable transaction systems of yore are still highly relevant. This will also create a large set of opportunities," he added.

He quoted the World Economic Forum report that projected, by 2030, 92 million jobs will be displaced and 170 million created, a net gain of 78 million.

"Capturing that gain requires empathy for the people affected, clarity about the outcomes sought, and the intellectual honesty to course correct when technology and human judgment diverge," he added.

Parekh told shareholders that Infosys is emerging as a leader in AI services, with AI-led programmes now deployed across 90 per cent of the company's top 200 clients and rapidly scaling across industries.

"Infosys is well-positioned as the leading company for AI services. Our focus is to continuously re-skill our over 3,25,000 employees on AI. Our disciplined execution delivered over $20 billion in revenue," he said, adding that in the last fiscal, the company recruited over 20,000 college graduates.

The company had 2,52,753 employees on a standalone basis and 3,28,594 employees on a consolidated basis as of March 31, 2026.