More than 2,000 crorepatis in Infosys ranks abroad

Bengaluru: InfosysNSE -0.31 % has more than 2,200 employees outside India who earned more than Rs 1 crore last fiscal, a jump of over 500 since FY17, data accessed by ET shows, highlighting the high-cost nature of the firm’s move to hire in its major markets.

In FY17, Infosys had over 1,700 employees who earned more than Rs 1crore, as ET had reported.

The numbers are not directly comparable. FY19 data, which ET has accessed from an Infosys executive, excludes more than 1,700 people directly employed by the company’s European branches. This could not be