Indian Business Leaders Earnings
In the financial year 2025, the top businesses and promoters of many big companies abstained from taking salary, but they earned in crores. This money was not received from salary, but from dividend, bonus and other incentives. In this list, Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Deepinder Goyal of Eternal, Murali Krishnan Prasad Divi of Divis Laboratories, Rahul Bhatia of Interglobe Aviation, fascinated bourgeo Oberoi of Oberoi Realty includes Oberoi.
Murali Divi to Vikas Oberoi earned big money
Murali Krishnan Prasad Divi, founder of Divis Laboratories, did not take any salary for the fourth consecutive year, but in FY25 he received a bonus of Rs 87.87 crore. His 2.85% stake in the company got Rs 114 crore as 1,500% dividend. His total assets are estimated at $ 9.8 billion.
Sameer Uttamal Mehta, chairman of Torrent Pharmaceuticals, also did not take salary, but earned a bonus of Rs 16.5 crore from the commission of Rs 30 crore and Torrent Power. He got a dividend of Rs 1,950 crore from the Mehta family’s Torrent Pharma 68% and 51% stake in Torrent Power. His net worth is $ 7.7 billion.
Vikas Oberoi, chairman of Oberoi Realty, is not taking salary since 2015. With the 58.5% stake in the company, he received Rs 170 crore in the 80% final dividend of FY25. His assets are $ 4.8 billion.
Mukesh Ambani’s salary zero
Infosys’s non-executive chairman Nandan Nilekani did not take any salary throughout the year. His 1.1% stake in the company received about Rs 45.7 crore on the basis of 860% dividend. Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, has not been taking salary since the epidemic. His salary from FY09 to FY20 was fixed at Rs 15 crore annually.
In FY25, he got a large part of Reliance’s promoter share (more than 50%) out of a dividend of Rs 7,446 crore. Rahul Bhatia, managing director of Interglobe Aviation, did not take salary throughout his tenure. He got a dividend of Rs 145 crore in FY25 with a 37.5% stake in the company. His assets are $ 8.5 billion.
Deepinder of Jomatte did not take salary
Eternal founder Deepinder Singh Goyal also did not take salary. His 3.83% stake in the company is priced at around Rs 11,200 crore. There itself Amit Burman, Mohit Burman, Saket Burman and Aditya Burman of Dabar India did not take salary in FY25. He got a final dividend of Rs 936 crore at Rs 86 per share from his joint 66% stake.
Companies want to win the trust of investors
This trend suggests that big businessmen are dependent on their share and performance -based bonuses rather than salary. This not only reduces salary expenses, but their profits directly connect with the results of the company, which also increases the trust of shareholders.