Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has not taken any salary from his company this year also. This is the sixth consecutive year when Mukesh Ambani has not taken a single rupee salary. According to the company’s annual report, Mukesh Ambani has not taken any amount in the form of salary, allowances, facilities and retirement benefits in the financial year 2025-26. Dividend remains the main source of income for Mukesh Ambani.
Earlier, Mukesh Ambani had limited his annual remuneration to Rs 15 crore from the financial year 2008-09 to 2019-20. After this, from the financial year 2020-21, he voluntarily gave up his salary in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Why did you take this decision?
Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani had taken this decision because he would not take salary until the company and all its businesses return to their full earning capacity. He has continued this decision completely voluntarily in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and now also in 2025-26. Reliance Industries earned the highest ever profit of Rs 95,754 crore in the financial year 2025-26 and the market value of the company stood at Rs 18.19 lakh crore.
Earned Rs 9.66 crore from dividend
The main source of income of Mukesh Ambani, the 21st richest person in the world with a net worth of around $100 billion, is dividend income. He directly holds 1.61 crore shares in Reliance, which gave him a dividend income of Rs 9.66 crore based on the dividend of Rs 6 per share declared for the financial year 2024-25. The remuneration of Ambani’s cousins Nikhil and Hital Meswani remained stable at Rs 25 crore each. This includes salary, allowances, retirement benefits and commission on profits. Executive Director PMS Prasad’s remuneration increased to Rs 20.58 crore in financial year 2025-26, from Rs 19.96 crore in 2024-25.
Even children did not get salary
Ambani’s three children Isha, Akash and Anant were included in the board of directors in October 2023. However, he did not receive any salary for this. He received only meeting fees and commission on profits. Akash and Isha got a meeting fee of Rs 5 lakh each and a commission of Rs 2.5 crore each. Ambani has been on the board of directors of Reliance since 1977. After the death of group founder Dhirubhai Ambani in July 2002, he was made the chairman of the company. In the year 2023, he was again appointed as the head of Reliance for five years till April 2029. Even during this period he has decided not to take salary.
