The Big Take

India’s Top Traders Are Raking In Million-Dollar Salaries

The country has become a global hiring hotspot amid surging wealth and investor fear of missing out.

IMC Trading’s Mumbai office in October.

Source: IMC Trading

Ambitious Indian finance professionals have never had it so good. While their international compatriots are facing job cuts and curtailed bonuses, for them it’s boomtime.

The employment market is so strong that stories abound of ghosted employers, million-dollar trading jobs, and private bankers able to demand — and get — up to a 50% pay hike to move firms.