Gautam Adani earned Rs 10.41 crore in FY25: Who earned more than him?
Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, earned Rs 10.41 crore in the financial year 2024–25. This marks a 12% rise from the previous year, as per annual reports of the group's listed companies. However, even with this increase, his earnings were lower than many top executives in the corporate world, including some within his own group.Adani, 62, received his salary from two of the nine listed firms in the Adani Group. He earned Rs 2.26 crore in salary and Rs 28 lakh in allowances from Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL). From Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), he drew Rs 1.8 crore in salary and Rs 6.07 crore as commission, totalling Rs 7.87 crore.In the previous financial year, his total salary stood at Rs 9.26 crore, Rs 2.54 crore from AEL and Rs 6.8 crore from APSEZ. This means his earnings have gone up by over Rs 1 crore this year.WHO EARNED MORE THAN GAUTAM ADANI?Despite the hike, several leading business heads in India earned much more than Adani. In FY24, Sunil Bharti Mittal of Bharti Airtel earned Rs 32.27 crore, Rajiv Bajaj of Bajaj Auto earned Rs 53.75 crore, and Pawan Munjal of Hero MotoCorp received Rs 109 crore.In FY25, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subrahmanyan took home Rs 76.25 crore, while Infosys CEO Salil S Parekh earned Rs 80.62 crore.Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries and the richest man in India, has not taken a salary since the Covid-19 pandemic. Before that, he had capped his salary at Rs 15 crore.ADANI GROUP EXECUTIVES WHO EARNED MORESome of Adani's own group executives received more pay than him in FY25. Vinay Prakash, CEO of AEL, earned Rs 69.34 crore, which includes Rs 4 crore as salary and Rs 65.34 crore in perquisites and bonuses.Vneet S Jaain, Managing Director of Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL), earned Rs 11.23 crore, while the group's Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh received Rs 10.4 crore.At APSEZ, Gautam Adani's son Karan Adani earned Rs 7.09 crore. The company's CEO Ashwani Gupta received Rs 10.34 crore. Both Karan and Gupta will get their variable pay in FY26.Other members of the Adani family also figure in the list of high earners within the group. Rajesh Adani, Gautam's younger brother, earned Rs 9.87 crore from AEL. His nephew Pranav Adani took home Rs 7.45 crore, and another nephew, Sagar Adani, earned Rs 7.50 crore from AGEL.According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, Gautam Adani's net worth is currently $82.5 billion. He had briefly become the richest person in Asia in 2022, but a sharp fall in Adani Group's share prices followed a report by US short-seller Hindenburg Research in 2023.Adani regained the top spot in Asia on two occasions in 2024 but is once again behind Mukesh Ambani.(With inputs from PTI)
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