HCL's Vijayakumar tops highest-paid Nifty 50 CEOs in FY26

Big companies have a top boss called a CEO, and the money they are paid each year is called remuneration.

In India, the 50 biggest companies on the stock market are known as the Nifty 50.

Newspapers made a list of the ten Nifty 50 bosses who earned the most money in the financial year FY26.

The person paid the most was C Vijayakumar, the boss of a technology company called HCL Technologies, who earned about ₹160 crore.

A crore is a very large number — it means ten million, so this is an enormous amount of money.

The second-highest earner was S.N. Subrahmanyan from Larsen & Toubro, with about ₹120 crore.

Some companies, like JSW Steel, had two leaders share the pay, and together they got ₹73 crore.

The rest of the list includes the bosses of Infosys, Bajaj Finance, InterGlobe Aviation and Mahindra & Mahindra.

All ten top bosses earned nearly ₹1,443 crore together in one year.

That is a lot of money, more than most people can even imagine.