<p>According to the Boston Consulting Group, Citi India leads the pack of salary cost in relation to the asset base with the average cost being a Rs 19 lakh as of last fiscal, followed by StanChart at Rs 13 lakh and HSBC at Rs 12.3 lakh.<br /><br />But what is to be noted here is that Citi India also makes its employees pay back the maximum with its average revenue per employee standing at Rs 127 lakh, way above SBI's average revenue of Rs 20 lakh per employee.<br /><br />At the fourth slot is the mid-sized public sector bank Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) with an average salary cost of Rs 6.5 lakh per employee, thereby making it at the top of the PSBs.<br /><br />Against this, the largest lender SBI has a notch down at Rs 6.4 lakh per employee while the new-age state-run bank IDBI Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce cough up Rs 6.3 lakh each on their every employee on an average.<br /><br />While banking behemoth SBI as over 2 lakh employees as of last fiscal, Citi India has just about 7,500, and the Chennai-based IOB has about 30,000 employees. State Bank employees together generated Rs 1,33,851 crore in revenues with a profit of Rs 11,733 crore in the past fiscal.<br /><br />Similarly, IOB also has the largest cost to income ratio among these banks at 67 per cent, while Citi has one of the lowest at 24 per cent, which is topped by HSBC at 23 per cent. For SBI, this stands at 51 per cent, says the BCG study.<br /><br />The largest private sector lender spends an average of Rs 5.5 lakh on its every employee, while Indian Bank spends Rs 6.2 lakh, BoB (Rs 6 lakh), Axis Bank and Bank of India (Rs 5.8 lakh each), PNB (Rs 5.5 lakh), Canara (Rs 5.1 lakh), UBI (Rs 4.9 lakh), Syndicate Bank, Allahabad Bank and Corporation (Rs 4.8 lakh each), Uco Bank (Rs 4.5 lakh) and Central Bank spends Rs 4.4 lakh each on its employee.<br /><br />When it comes to cost to income ratio of other banks, Central Bank is at the second slot with 52 per cent, followed by Syndicate Bank at 51 per cent, HDFC Bank at 49 per cent, Uco at 48 per cent, BoI (44 per cent), BoB (42 per cent), Axis and OBC (41 per cent each), UBI and IDBI Bank (40 per cent each), PNB and Canara (39 per cent each), Indian Bank and ICICI Bank (38 per cent each) Corp Bank (37 per cent), Allahabad Bank (36 per cent) and StanChart (30 per cent), says the report.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>According to the Boston Consulting Group, Citi India leads the pack of salary cost in relation to the asset base with the average cost being a Rs 19 lakh as of last fiscal, followed by StanChart at Rs 13 lakh and HSBC at Rs 12.3 lakh.<br /><br />But what is to be noted here is that Citi India also makes its employees pay back the maximum with its average revenue per employee standing at Rs 127 lakh, way above SBI's average revenue of Rs 20 lakh per employee.<br /><br />At the fourth slot is the mid-sized public sector bank Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) with an average salary cost of Rs 6.5 lakh per employee, thereby making it at the top of the PSBs.<br /><br />Against this, the largest lender SBI has a notch down at Rs 6.4 lakh per employee while the new-age state-run bank IDBI Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce cough up Rs 6.3 lakh each on their every employee on an average.<br /><br />While banking behemoth SBI as over 2 lakh employees as of last fiscal, Citi India has just about 7,500, and the Chennai-based IOB has about 30,000 employees. State Bank employees together generated Rs 1,33,851 crore in revenues with a profit of Rs 11,733 crore in the past fiscal.<br /><br />Similarly, IOB also has the largest cost to income ratio among these banks at 67 per cent, while Citi has one of the lowest at 24 per cent, which is topped by HSBC at 23 per cent. For SBI, this stands at 51 per cent, says the BCG study.<br /><br />The largest private sector lender spends an average of Rs 5.5 lakh on its every employee, while Indian Bank spends Rs 6.2 lakh, BoB (Rs 6 lakh), Axis Bank and Bank of India (Rs 5.8 lakh each), PNB (Rs 5.5 lakh), Canara (Rs 5.1 lakh), UBI (Rs 4.9 lakh), Syndicate Bank, Allahabad Bank and Corporation (Rs 4.8 lakh each), Uco Bank (Rs 4.5 lakh) and Central Bank spends Rs 4.4 lakh each on its employee.<br /><br />When it comes to cost to income ratio of other banks, Central Bank is at the second slot with 52 per cent, followed by Syndicate Bank at 51 per cent, HDFC Bank at 49 per cent, Uco at 48 per cent, BoI (44 per cent), BoB (42 per cent), Axis and OBC (41 per cent each), UBI and IDBI Bank (40 per cent each), PNB and Canara (39 per cent each), Indian Bank and ICICI Bank (38 per cent each) Corp Bank (37 per cent), Allahabad Bank (36 per cent) and StanChart (30 per cent), says the report.<br /><br /><br /></p>