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Infosys Sets Rs 21 Lakh Entry Pay for Specialist Roles, Opens 2025 Off-Campus Drive

The company links the higher bands to an AI-first strategy that seeks digitally native talent.

Overview

  • New entry bands include Specialist Programmer L3 at Rs 21 lakh, L2 at Rs 16 lakh, L1 at Rs 11 lakh, and Digital Specialist Engineer (trainee) at Rs 7 lakh.
  • Infosys is opening an off-campus recruitment drive for 2025 engineering and computer science graduates for these tracks.
  • Group CHRO Shaji Mathew said the push is part of an AI-first approach that expands Specialist Programmer opportunities and mixes campus with off-campus hiring.
  • The company hired about 12,000 freshers in the first half of FY26 and is on course for roughly 20,000 fresher hires this fiscal.
  • The revised packages exceed comparable entry offers at rivals such as TCS, where Digital roles are about Rs 7 lakh and Prime hires about Rs 11 lakh.