HDFC Bank CEO and MD Sashidhar Jagdishan is India's highest-paid banker for FY25 with a salary of ₹12.08 crore and ESOPs worth around ₹42 crore, Economic Times reported. He was followed by Axis Bank CEO and MD Amitabh Chaudhry, who earned a ₹9.11 crore salary and got ESOPs worth over ₹30 crore, and Kotak Mahindra CEO and MD Ashok Vaswani.