{
  "id": 15702691,
  "title": "HCLTech Revises Fresher Salaries With Top Hires Starting At ₹18 Lakh, Four Times What Other Campus Recruits Earn",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/hcltech-revises-fresher-salaries-with-top-hires-starting-at-18-lakh",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T04:15:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/hcltech-revises-fresher-salaries-with-top-hires-starting-at-18-lakh-four-times-what-other-campus-recruits-earn"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "HCLTech is paying its top fresher talent a starting salary of Rs. 18 lakh a year, four times what it pays others, whose pay starts at Rs. 4.5 lakh. The IT services major has scaled up its Elite Engineer cadre this year as demand shifts towards AI and other frontier technologies, and the pay gap shows how sharply Indian IT is now pricing skills at the entry level. The Rs. 18-22 lakh premium The…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}