Only five individuals declared salaries of over ₹100 crore in the tax assessment year 2015-16, data by Income Tax Department showed. The average annual salary of the five taxpayers was ₹126.4 crore. Data also revealed that 30,567 taxpayers earned over ₹1 crore, of which 58 earned in the ₹25-50 crore range and 11 earned in the ₹50-100 crore range.