The pay data, and how to read it.
The compensation module is a layered benchmark: the market as a whole, each Platform Industry and individual companies, cut by geography, role and experience. This page explains what is in it, how the layers relate and how to read a percentile, so a figure is never quoted without its context.
- Annual CTC in lakh rupees at four percentiles
- Market, industry and company layers
- Skill premiums as a separate, dated layer
The GCC list this page draws on.
Pay across functions, with the range at each.
A screen from the product itself. The counts beside it are read from the platform directory.
- 1,296
- companies with pay benchmarks
- 2,500
- company profiles
- 35
- Indian cities with a centre
- 10
- platform industries
Compensation, in four parts.
Each part is something the product does today, with the data it uses named on the page.
Three layers that nest
The market benchmark is the widest view. Each Platform Industry narrows it, and each company narrows it again, so a company's pay is read against its peers and against everyone.
Cut by geography and role
Region, state and city on one axis; track, function, job family and role group on the other; six experience bands across both.
A skills layer
Premium percentages over a comparable role for AI and other scarce skills, with baseline pay, indicative pay with the skill, profile counts and a quality grade.
Plain rules for reading it
Every median names its band. A slice without a benchmark widens first by geography and then by role, and says what it did.
The market, company by company.
Every GCC on the list has a profile, and every profile rolls up into the cities, industries, skills and pay layers you filter by. Start from the whole market and narrow to one company, or start from one company and see the market around it.
Request access- 0.0%
- Of the workforce is in Bengaluru
- 0
- Mega GCCs, over 10,000 people each
- 0.00M
- GCC workforce on the list
- 0
- Operating centres
What the benchmark holds
Counts describe the published benchmark files loaded in the product.
- 220,000+
- Benchmark rows
- 4
- Percentiles: P25, P50, P75, P90
- 6
- Experience bands
- 1,200+
- Companies with their own rows
- 4,188
- Skill-premium rows
- ₹ lakh
- Annual CTC unit
September 2026
Ask the question the way you would ask a colleague.
These are the kinds of questions this page is built for. Each one is answered from the data on it, not from a general model of the market.
What does the market pay for a role at a given band, and how wide is the range?
How does an industry's median compare with the whole market's?
Which companies sit above their industry's median at the same band?
How do cities in one state compare with each other?
Which skills carry a premium, and which are shown at the ceiling?
Where does a slice widen, and what did it widen to?
From first look to a decision you can show.
Choose the layer
Market, industry or company.
Cut the slice
Geography, role and experience band.
Read the range
The four percentiles, in annual lakh rupees.
Check the limits
Any widening, the data period and the quality of skill evidence.
Built for the people who own the decision.
Compensation analysts
Percentiles cut the way pay structures are.
Researchers
A documented benchmark with stated rules.
Hiring leaders
A figure to anchor an offer.
What is in it, and what is not yet.
We say plainly what the data holds today and what we are still adding, so nothing here is implied.
- Annual CTC percentiles by geography, role and band
- Market, industry and company layers
- A dated skill-premium layer with quality grades
- CTC structure and benefits
- Pay by leadership level
- Pay distribution beyond P90
- Year-on-year change
The terms on this page, defined.
Every figure on a CapSight page comes with its definition, so you never have to guess what a number is counting.
- GCC
- A Global Capability Centre: a centre a company runs in India for its own global work, such as engineering, analytics, finance, operations or support. It is part of the company, not an outside vendor.
- Platform Industry
- The one industry grouping CapSight uses for every company, so a filter or a chart means the same thing on every page. There are 10.
- Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities
- Tier 1 is the eight established hubs: Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. Every other city is Tier 2.
- Operating centre
- A company's presence in one city. A GCC with centres in three cities has three, which is why centres outnumber GCCs.
- Setup year
- The year a company set up its India GCC, where it is recorded: 1,895 of 2,500 companies have one. It is the basis of the setup eras the skyline shows.
- Median and percentiles
- The median (P50) is the middle value: half the sample sits below it. Percentiles show the spread around it, so a median is never quoted without its band.
Before you ask.
Why four percentiles and not a distribution?
That is what the published benchmark carries. A fuller distribution is on the list of data the product asks for.
What is the unit?
Gross annual CTC in lakh rupees for India-based roles.
Is Gurugram part of Delhi NCR?
For the main comparisons, yes: Delhi, Gurugram and Noida read as one hub, with the individual towns visible where the benchmark has them.
Bring the GCC decision you are working on.
Where to put the next 300 engineers, what a peer pays its architects, who owns the charter you are selling into. Ask it in CapSight, and see the market, the peers and the people behind the answer.
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- 02Ask the question you have
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- 03Walk it through with us
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Capability maturity of five BFSI GCCs in Bengaluru, by function.
Illustrative example