TCS to roll out wage hikes for about 80% of workers, efficient from September 1

India’s largest IT providers firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) knowledgeable workers that it’ll roll-out wage hikes for about 80% of workforce, protecting mid to junior ranges.

The wage hikes come at a time when TCS is ready to put off about 12,000 workers this 12 months.

The wage hikes can be efficient from September 1, TCS CHRO Milind Lakkad and CHRO Designate Okay Sudeep stated in an e mail to workers on Wednesday (August 6, 2025).

“We are pleased to announce a compensation revision for all eligible associates in grades upto C3A and equivalent, covering 80% of our workforce. This will be effective 1st September 2025,” says the e-mail seen by PTI.

The extent of wage hikes couldn’t be instantly ascertained.

When reached for remark, the corporate in a press release stated: “We can confirm that we will be issuing wage hikes to around 80% of our employees effective 1st September 2025.” The transfer to reward and retain expertise comes at a time when TCS has determined to put off over 12,000 workers as a part of what it describes as a broader technique to turn out to be a “future-ready organisation”. This entails concentrate on investments in know-how, AI deployment, market enlargement, and workforce realignment, in line with the corporate.

“TCS is on a journey to become a future-ready organisation. This includes strategic initiatives on multiple fronts, including investing in new-tech areas, entering new markets, deploying AI at scale for our clients and ourselves, deepening our partnerships, creating next-gen infrastructure, and realigning our workforce model,” the corporate had stated final month because the information of layoffs shook the IT trade.

“Towards this, a number of reskilling and redeployment initiatives have been underway. As part of this journey, we will also be releasing associates from the organisation whose deployment may not be feasible. This will impact about 2% of our global workforce, primarily in the middle and the senior grades, over the course of the year,” TCS had then stated.

The layoffs at TCS have, in reality, ignited bigger conversations on whether or not or not the IT trade itself could also be headed for a significant reset, amid turbulence from world macro uncertainties, influence of U.S.’ crushing tariffs on general outsourcing sentiments, and the AI-led disruptions.

As it’s, India’s prime IT providers corporations have delivered single-digit income progress in Q1 FY26, capping off a somewhat-sobering June quarter as macroeconomic instability and geopolitical tensions have weighed on world tech demand and delayed shopper decision-making.