Electronic commerce, financial services can see the best salary increases in 2025: Report

Electronic commerce and financial services are expected to lead salary increases, with increases greater than 10%, driven by a strong demand for digital and technological talent.

The report highlights a growing change towards the compensation strategies promoted by AI, with 60% of Indian employers who plan to integrate AI in the comparative salary evaluation and rewards management by 2028. Companies are increasingly taking advantage of AI to perform a real -time salary equity analysis and adaptation compensation to individual preferences.

Among the sectors, electronic commerce will see the highest salary increases of 10.5%, followed by financial services with 10.3%and global capacity centers (CCG) to 10.2%. On the contrary, it is likely that services with you and you will testify to slower salary growth, with increases of 9.6% and 9%, respectively.

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The report also underlines the growing prominence of ESOP as a long -term incentive, with 71% of the companies that offer them to align the performance of employees with the creation of wealth. Meanwhile, employee wear decreased to 17.5% in 2024, below 18.3% in 2023, since companies focused on flexibility, hybrid work models and personalized rewards to retain talent.

At the leadership level, CEO wages in NIFTY50 companies increased 18-20% last year, with a remarkable preference for internal promotions. Almost 45% of CEO transitions in the last five years come from the organization.

In general, the compensation panorama is changing fixed structures to dynamic and enabled payment models for the AI, with flexibility and financial safety that arise as key promoters of employee satisfaction.