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Indian companies to offer better salary hikes in 2021: Aon

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Indian companies to offer better salary hikes in 2021: Aon

According to a survey by global human resource consultancy Aon, people working in Indian companies will likely to get better salary hikes in the upcoming year compared to 2020.

At present companies are betting on higher consumer demand due to enhanced government spending and bumper rainfall to neutralize the pandemic-led economic contraction. Therefore, the companies, spanning sectors including e-commerce, energy, financial institutions, and pharmaceuticals are expected to offer an average hike of 7.3% to their employees in 2021.

In 2020, the average hike offered was 6.1% which is said to be the lowest in the last 14 years, added the survey that collected data from 1,050 companies across 20 industries.

The survey noted that even though an inflated pay hike is not a given next year, at least 87% of companies are planning pay hikes compared to 71% in 2020. While 47% of the companies are likely to offer over 8% hike compared to 44% in 2020, around 14% of companies are expected to offer zero pay hike in 2021 versus 29% this year.

“Industries like hi-tech, IT, life sciences, e-commerce are likely to offer the highest pay hikes,” shows Aon survey

Speaking to Media, a partner at Aon, and CEO of the firm’s Performance and Rewards Solutions practice in India, Nitin Sethi said, “Despite the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic in India and its deep impact on the economy, organizations in India have shown tremendous resilience and a mature view on talent,” said Nitin Sethi.

“Business and HR leaders made hard decisions in second and third quarters of 2020 and are now betting on the green shoots of improving consumer demand. They see the need to invest in talent as a critical part of their recovery and growth prospects,” Sethi added.

Navneet Rattan, Director at Aon in India’s Performance and Rewards Solutions practice said the impact of COVID-19 has been “varied on different sectors and organizations. We see high differentials in salary increases, both intra, and inter-industry. The difference between industries with the highest increase to lowest increase hits 7.2% points as compared to mere 2.4% points in 2019.”

The Aon survey further added that the industries which are expected to offer the highest salary hike include– technology, life sciences, e-commerce, chemicals, and professional services while companies in sectors such as hospitality, retail, and real estate -severely battered by the pandemic, are projecting an increase but trail other sectors.

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