Infosys CEO among highest paid in Indian IT as compensation rose 22% to $9.4 million last fiscal

BENGALURU (Reuters) -Infosys CEO Salil Parekh's compensation rose 21.7% to 806.2 million rupees ($9.44 million), the company said in its annual report on Monday, making him one of the highest-paid Indian IT chiefs currently in office. Parekh, the longest-serving non-founder CEO at the IT company, earned a fixed salary of 79.4 million rupees and bonuses of 231.8 million rupees. The largest portion, 495 million rupees, resulted from the chief executive of India's No. 2 IT services firm exercising his stock options.