Bengaluru: Select high-growth sectors are expected to lead salary increments in the 2025–26 financial year. Industries such as electric vehicles (EV) and EV infrastructure, consumer durables, retail, and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) are projected to offer average salary hikes ranging from 10.4% to 11.5%, showed TeamLease’s Jobs and Salaries Primer 2025–26.Within these sectors, certain roles are seeing even more significant increases. For instance, electrical design engineers are expected to receive a 12.4% hike, mechanical design engineers 12.1%, in-store demonstrators 12.2%, and relationship executives 11.6%. Salary growth in the current financial year is expected to range from a minimum of 6.2% to a maximum of 11.3% across industries. Average salary increases in industries including construction and real estate, automotive, travel and hospitality, fintech, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, insurance, e-commerce, and tech startups range between 8.1% and 9.5%.The TeamLease report showed that industries such as insurance, e-commerce, and tech startups are expected to offer average salary hikes ranging between 8.1% and 9.5%. While these increases are moderate, several specific roles within these sectors are projected to see sharper pay growth. Notably, field sales roles are expected to receive an 11.9% hike, showroom sales 11.5%, project engineers 10.4%, installation engineers 10.3%, and loan officers 10%. Meanwhile, sectors experiencing more cautious growth—including manufacturing, agriculture, media, BPO, and education—are projected to offer more modest salary increments, ranging from 6.2% to 7.9%.Driven by talent fueling pay growth, cities like Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Gurugram are emerging as key hubs where professionals are seeing higher salary hikes. In Bengaluru, particularly, roles such as data engineer can expect 12.9%, sales officer 12.5%, quality control inspector 12.4%, and service engineer 11.7%. Mumbai is leading with strong salary hikes for key roles such as electrical design engineer (12.6%), field sales (12.5%), and loan officer (12.5%). In Gurugram, notable salary hikes are projected for roles such as sales executive (12.4%), mechanical design engineer (12.3%), and system administrator (12%).Bengaluru dominates high-variance industries like insurance, banking, media and entertainment, and agriculture & agrochemicals. Hyderabad shows wide variance across automotive, educational services, e-commerce & tech startups, fintech, and consumer durables. Tier II cities are not far behind in terms of salary hikes. Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Kochi, and Ahmedabad are expected to give out salary hikes of 9.5% to 9.9%. Others in the high single digits include Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Indore, which are in the middle of the spectrum as the average ranges between 6.2% and 11.3%.Projected salary hikes in this cautious-growth cluster fall between 6.2% and 7.9%, primarily across industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, media, BPO, and education. Even here, there are select roles that are fetching double-digit salary raises. For instance, a chemist can expect an increase of 10.2%, the same as a data engineer.
