The Pay Cheque Is Growing

India Inc’s top executives and directors are getting paid higher than ever. In 2017-18, remunerations of the highest paid 50 executives on the Fortune India 500 list grew 50%.

- Debabrata Das

IT HAS BEEN A GOOD YEAR for executives leading top companies on the Fortune India 500 list for 2018. The total remuneration of the 50 highest paid executives on the list for 2017-18 went up by 618.8 crore, roughly 50% more than 2016-17. So who were the big earners?