Gautam Adani attracts whole remuneration of ₹10.41 cr pay in FY25, lags behind friends

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India’s second richest individual Gautam Adani acquired a complete remuneration of ₹10.41 crore within the fiscal yr ended March 31, 2025, decrease than most business friends and his personal key executives.

Mr. Adani, 62, drew salaries from two out of the 9 listed corporations in his ports-to-energy conglomerate, the most recent annual experiences of the listed entities of the group confirmed. His whole remuneration was 12% greater than the ₹9.26 crore he had earned within the earlier 2023-24 monetary yr.

His remuneration for 2024-25 from the group’s flagship agency Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) included ₹2.26 crore wage and one other ₹28 lakh in perquisites, allowances and different advantages. The whole earnings from AEL at ₹2.54 crore was larger than ₹2.46 crore within the earlier fiscal.

In addition to, he drew ₹7.87 crore from Adani Ports and Particular Financial Zone (APSEZ) —₹1.8 crore wage and ₹6.07 crore fee.

This in contrast with ₹6.8 crore he acquired from APSEZ in 2023-24.

Mr. Adani’s wage is decrease than the heads of just about all giant family-owned conglomerates in India.

Whereas the richest Indian, Mukesh Ambani, has been foregoing his complete wage since COVID-19 broke out, previous to which he had capped his remuneration at ₹15 crore, Mr. Adani’s remuneration is way decrease than telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal (₹32.27 crore in 2023-24), Rajiv Bajaj (₹53.75 crore in FY24), Pawan Munjal (₹109 crore in FY24), L&T Chairman S N Subrahmanyan (₹76.25 crore in FY25) and Infosys CEO Salil S Parekh (₹80.62 crore in FY25).

The most recent annual experiences of Mittal’s Bharti Airtel, Munjal’s Hero Motocorp and Bajaj Auto are but to be launched.

Similar to different promoters, Mr. Adani additionally earns from dividends that the group corporations might pay on earnings yearly.

Wage earned by Mr. Adani is decrease than no less than a few chief executives of his group corporations. AEL CEO Vinay Prakash acquired ₹69.34 crore. Prakash’s remuneration included ₹4 crore wage and ₹65.34 crore in perquisites, allowances and variable incentives “for distinctive operational and monetary efficiency within the mining companies and built-in sources administration enterprise of the corporate”.

Renewable power agency Adani Inexperienced Vitality Ltd (AGEL) Managing Director Vneet S Jaain acquired ₹11.23 crore, whereas Group CFO Jugeshinder Singh earned ₹10.4 crore in FY25.

Adani’s son Karan acquired ₹7.09 crore from APSEZ, whereas the corporate CEO Ashwani Gupta earned ₹10.34 crore. Variable pay for FY25 in each Karan and Gupta’s case shall be disbursed in FY26, the annual report mentioned.

Gautam Adani’s youthful brother, Rajesh earned Rs 9.87 crore from AEL whereas his nephew Pranav acquired Rs 7.45 crore. His different nephew Sagar took house ₹7.50 crore from AGEL.

Metropolis gasoline arm Adani Complete Fuel CEO Suresh P Manglani was paid ₹8.21 crore in remuneration for 2024-25 and Adani Vitality Options CEO drew ₹14 crore wage.

Adani Energy CEO SB Khayalia drew ₹9.16 crore wage in FY25.

Gautam Adani, who’s value $82.5 billion in keeping with the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, has been jostling with Ambani for the spot of the richest individual in Asia. He grew to become the richest Asian in 2022 however misplaced that place after a damning report by US short-seller Hindenburg Analysis worn out nearly $150 billion of the market worth of his group inventory at its lowest level in 2023.

He regained the highest spot on two events final yr however once more ceded the place to Ambani.

Ambani is ranked seventeenth on the world’s richest checklist with a web value of $104 billion. Adani is ranked twentieth.