Tata Consultancy Services chief executive and managing director K Krithivasan received total remuneration of ₹28.1 crore in FY26, a 6 percent increase from ₹26.5 crore a year earlier, according to the company’s annual report.
The salary hike comes at a time when India’s largest IT services company is facing scrutiny over workforce reduction, restructuring and the growing impact of artificial intelligence on jobs.
TCS CEO K Krithivasan’s remuneration rose 6 percent to ₹28.1 crore in FY26
TCS workforce declined by 23,460 employees year-on-year
Employee count fell from 6,07,979 in FY25 to 5,84,519 in FY26
CEO pay was 332.8 times the median salary of employees
TCS says AI-led restructuring and workforce realignment drove the changes
Krithivasan’s compensation package included:
₹1.67 crore as salary
₹1.43 crore in benefits, perquisites and allowances
₹25 crore as commission
Chief operating officer Aarthi Subramanian earned ₹18.3 crore during FY26. Her remuneration included:
₹1.5 crore as salary
₹1.83 crore in benefits and allowances
₹15 crore as commission
The company said executive pay revisions were broadly aligned with employee salary hikes across geographies.
Junior and mid-level employees received hikes of 4.5-7 percent
Top performers received double-digit increments
Employees received wage hikes in the range of 1-6 percent
TCS said variable pay remained linked to organisational and individual performance, while compensation revisions reflected market trends in different countries.
The decline in workforce comes amid restructuring and workforce realignment measures undertaken over the past year.
TCS said the exercise was aimed at creating a “future-ready organisation” with increased focus on:
Artificial intelligence
Emerging technologies
New deployment models across projects and teams
The company had earlier indicated that nearly 12,000 employees — around 2 percent of its global workforce — were impacted by restructuring and optimisation measures, mainly in middle and senior management roles.
According to reports, TCS clarified that the overall drop in headcount should not be interpreted entirely as layoffs, as attrition and normal employee movement also contributed to the decline.
Krithivasan, who took over as TCS chief executive in 2023, said the technology services industry was operating in an increasingly complex macroeconomic and geopolitical environment.
In his letter to shareholders, he described FY26 as an “inflection point” for enterprise AI adoption, with companies increasingly moving from experimentation to large-scale deployment of artificial intelligence despite continued global uncertainty.
