Employees may see 12 percent pay hikes: survey

New Delhi: India Inc is expected to give slightly lower hikes in salary as well as variable payouts this fiscal while the overall increment would be around 12 percent, says a survey. The lesser pay hike projection compared to about 13 percent last fiscal comes against the backdrop of high inflation levels and global issues impacting domestic economic growth, it said.[caption id=“attachment_308860” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Less to count. Reuters”]  [/caption] The survey was conducted by Deloitte India, human capital advisory services (HCAS), part of global consultancy Deloitte. According to the survey of 142 companies, average salary increases would be 12 percent this fiscal while the variable payout would be 16 percent during the same period. Overall variable pay is calculated as a percentage of cost to company (CTC). Deloitte India’s leader (human capital advisory services) Thiruvengadam P said this year the increment figures are conservative compared to the previous fiscal. “The overall median has dropped one percentage point to 12 percent,” he said. Manufacturing, infrastructure and real estate sector is projected to see the highest increment of as much as 15 percent in 2012-13. However, financial services sector is expected to have hikes of only about 10 percent in the current financial year. According to Thiruvengadam, domestic growth rate was impacted by RBI’s monetary policy tightening measures and geopolitical concerns. “Nationally the effect was witnessed across all industries, as a result the spread of variable pay range has shown a considerable decrease as compared to 2011-12. “Across all industries, the variable pay has reduced most for top management by 2.5 percent points and the higher payout is expected to be at 30 percent as compared to 41 percent last year,” he said. When it comes to attrition, pharmaceutical, healthcare and life sciences’ are expected to see the highest levels at 22 percent. “The overall attrition across industries is 13 percent. Better pay and personal reasons have been rated as the key reasons for attrition industry-wide,” the survey said. PTI