IND · India
Average pay by industry in India
IND · 20 industries · 2025
₹5,64,384INR/YR
Information and communication pays the most of any industry in India — ₹5,64,384 a year, about 5.4× Activities of households as employers at ₹1,04,667.
SOURCE·ILOSTAT — Mean monthly earnings by occupation (ISCO-08)·CC BY 4.0·REVIEWED 2025
How India publishes this cut, and what twelve times a month means
- ILOSTAT publishes this breakdown as part of Mean monthly earnings by occupation (ISCO-08), classification ECO_ISIC4, 2025.
- The source figures are monthly; they are multiplied by twelve here so they sit on the same annual basis as the rest of the site, and every page says so.
- They cover employees only — a minority of India's workforce, since most people are self-employed or in informal work.
- No row is estimated. Where the agency published nothing for a band, nothing appears.
annual (INR) = published monthly figure × 12
Every industrie, highest first
| Industry | Median (annualised) | Share of the highest |
|---|---|---|
| Information and communication | ₹5,64,384 | 100% |
| Public administration and defence | ₹4,24,135 | 75% |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | ₹4,23,424 | 75% |
| Financial and insurance activities | ₹4,06,978 | 72% |
| Electricity | ₹3,80,987 | 68% |
| Mining and quarrying | ₹3,59,416 | 64% |
| Education | ₹3,46,609 | 61% |
| Real estate activities | ₹2,96,120 | 52% |
| Human health and social work activities | ₹2,62,646 | 47% |
| Transportation and storage | ₹2,56,840 | 46% |
| Water supply | ₹2,37,182 | 42% |
| Administrative and support service activities | ₹2,32,551 | 41% |
| Manufacturing | ₹2,25,528 | 40% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | ₹2,25,050 | 40% |
| Construction | ₹1,93,336 | 34% |
| Accommodation and food service activities | ₹1,86,476 | 33% |
| Wholesale and retail trade | ₹1,77,672 | 31% |
| Agriculture | ₹1,41,927 | 25% |
| Other service activities | ₹1,38,869 | 25% |
| Activities of households as employers | ₹1,04,667 | 19% |
ILOSTAT · ECO_ISIC4 2025
SOURCE·ILOSTAT — Mean monthly earnings by occupation (ISCO-08)·CC BY 4.0·REVIEWED 2025
And split by sex
| Industry | All | Men | Women | Women's pay as % of men's |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information and communication | ₹5,64,384 | ₹5,86,765 | ₹5,03,375 | 86% |
| Public administration and defence | ₹4,24,135 | ₹4,51,102 | ₹3,16,229 | 70% |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | ₹4,23,424 | ₹4,23,214 | ₹4,24,090 | 100% |
| Financial and insurance activities | ₹4,06,978 | ₹4,16,804 | ₹3,71,014 | 89% |
| Electricity | ₹3,80,987 | ₹3,77,064 | ₹4,42,967 | 117% |
| Mining and quarrying | ₹3,59,416 | ₹3,61,236 | ₹3,15,079 | 87% |
| Education | ₹3,46,609 | ₹4,33,821 | ₹2,68,459 | 62% |
| Real estate activities | ₹2,96,120 | ₹2,81,287 | ₹3,84,163 | 137% |
| Human health and social work activities | ₹2,62,646 | ₹3,38,482 | ₹2,15,043 | 64% |
| Transportation and storage | ₹2,56,840 | ₹2,54,657 | ₹3,06,879 | 121% |
| Water supply | ₹2,37,182 | ₹2,45,263 | ₹1,88,210 | 77% |
| Administrative and support service activities | ₹2,32,551 | ₹2,37,794 | ₹2,13,805 | 90% |
| Manufacturing | ₹2,25,528 | ₹2,36,774 | ₹1,55,113 | 66% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | ₹2,25,050 | ₹2,33,033 | ₹1,79,645 | 77% |
| Construction | ₹1,93,336 | ₹2,38,275 | ₹92,295 | 39% |
| Accommodation and food service activities | ₹1,86,476 | ₹1,96,528 | ₹1,42,929 | 73% |
| Wholesale and retail trade | ₹1,77,672 | ₹1,83,255 | ₹1,42,099 | 78% |
| Agriculture | ₹1,41,927 | ₹1,70,696 | ₹94,166 | 55% |
| Other service activities | ₹1,38,869 | ₹1,61,448 | ₹1,02,183 | 63% |
| Activities of households as employers | ₹1,04,667 | ₹1,64,127 | ₹80,026 | 49% |
This compares the average pay of all men against all women in each industry. It is not a like-for-like comparison of the same job at the same level — it reflects which roles and hours men and women actually hold, which is what makes it worth publishing.
What people ask next
- Which industry pays the most in India?
- Information and communication, at ₹5,64,384 a year, against ₹1,04,667 for Activities of households as employers at the other end. Figures are 2025, annualised from the published monthly series.
- Are these annual or monthly figures?
- The agency publishes them monthly. They are shown here multiplied by twelve so they sit on the same annual basis as the rest of the site, and they cover employees only — a minority of India's workforce, since most people are self-employed or in informal work.
