The Ambani brothers almost doubled their pay packet in the year ending March 31, 2005.
Mukesh and Anil Ambani got Rs 21.72 crore (Rs 217.2 million) each compared with Rs 11.62 crore (Rs 116.2 million) in the previous year.
The brothers got Rs 20.64 crore (Rs 206.4 million) each as commission as the group had made a huge profit of Rs 7,572 crore (Rs 75.72 billion) in the 2004-05.
RIL's two executive directors Nikhil R Meswani and Hital R Meswani took home a package of Rs 5.55 crore (Rs 55.5 million) each, more than double of what they received during the previous financial year. Of this, each got Rs 5.16 crore (Rs 51.6 million) as commission.
The Ambani and Meswani brothers were part of the growing tribe of India Inc CEOs who got a huge salary increase in 2004-05.
Among other highly paid CEOs are Sajjan Jindal, vice chairman and managing director of Jindal Vijayanagar Steel, who earned Rs 8.12 crore (Rs 81.2 million) in 2004-05, including a commission of Rs 6.81 crore (Rs 68.1 million).
Vivek Paul, who left Wipro last week, took home Rs 7.15 crore (Rs 71.5 million) as vice chairman of the company last year. Wockhardt promoter Habil Khorakiwala was paid Rs 7.01 crore (Rs 70.1 million) and Blue Dart Managing Director Clyde Cooper got Rs 9.94 crore (Rs 99.4 million) with one-time retention compensation of Rs 6.80 crore (Rs 68 million).
The number of CEOs drawing an annual pay packet of over Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) has already crossed 200 in 2004-05 compared with 162 in the previous year.