Earning Rs 1 crore a year may have been a dream for top executives till a couple of years ago, but no longer. The new aspiration level for the country’s professionals is $1 million, or Rs 5 crore. The club of crore-plus earners in the country is getting crowded, with hundreds of new faces joining it last year.
As many as 640 directors of public listed companies took home more than Rs 1 crore for the year ended March 2009, compared to 570 in the previous year.
Here are the top salary earners of over Rs 10 crore:
CMD, Sun TV
Pay per annum: Rs 37.08 cr
Chairman, RCom
Pay per annum: Rs 30.02 cr
Naveen Jindal
Exec VC, Jindal Steel
Pay per annum: Rs 28.27 cr
Ex-CEO, Ranbaxy Labs
Pay per annum: Rs 23.70 cr
CMD, Bharti Airtel
Pay per annum: Rs 22.89 cr
Chairman, Hero Honda
Pay per annum: Rs 19.79 cr
Pawan Munjal
CEO, Hero Honda
Pay per annum: Rs 19.68 cr
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