Mumbai Leads India’s Fresher Pay Race at INR 4.29 LPA: GetWork Report

Mumbai leads fresher salaries in India with an average package of ₹4.29 lakh, followed by Delhi at ₹4.05 lakh, reveals GetWork’s FY25 report. Overall, fresher pay rose 3.4% from last year to ₹3.22 lakh. Sales and finance roles offer the highest entry-level pay.

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22 May 2025 — 3 min read

Mumbai Leads India’s Fresher Pay Race at INR 4.29 LPA: Report

In a dynamic job market, fresher hiring opportunities are growing at an unprecedented pace and Mumbai, the financial capital of India has emerged as the highest-paying city for freshers with an average salary package of INR 4.29 Lakh followed by National Capital Delhi at INR 4.05 Lakh per annum, according to an analysis by AI-powered hiring platform GetWork.

On the other hand, Pune offers an average package of INR 3.34 lakh, while Bangalore, India’s startup and tech hub, recorded an average salary of INR 2.95 lakh. Chennai recorded the lowest among metros, with average fresher compensation at INR 2.65 lakh per annum. All the figures are from the jobs posted on GetWork in the financial year 2025.

Commenting on the trends, GetWork CEO & Founder, Rahul Veerwal said, “The variation in average fresher salaries across metro cities demonstrates a strong demand originating from regional cities, cost-of-living and industry specific concentration. Metro cities that are densely populated with corporate headquarters and financial institutions, naturally offer higher-level compensation at entry level than tech-centric hubs that are majorly dominated by startups. Subsequently, these trends reflect how local economic ecosystems shape fresher hiring scenarios in India.”

Salary Trends for Freshers in FY25

Overall, companies hiring freshers in FY25 offered an average salary of INR 3.22 Lakh, which is 3.4% higher than the INR 3.12 Lakh average salary offered in FY24. The trend report by GetWork also found that Sales and Finance roles offer the highest salaries to fresh graduates. This showcases the sustenance in demand in these high-performance job functions.

Fresher Salary Spectrum on GetWork

Average salary packages exhibit an overall market health, however, a closer look at the salary range reveals the diverse realities freshers face as they enter the workforce. Freshers draw the highest salary of INR 10 Lakh, hired through GetWork in FY25. This indicates lucrative opportunities in select roles or sectors for top-tier talent.

In contrast, the lowest fresher salary recorded at INR 2.1 lakh, which illustrates the broad range of compensation at the entry level depending on skillset, location and employer type.

India’s job market is stabilising than before, and hence, the fresher compensation is gradually improving. The rise in salaries, especially in metro cities like Mumbai and Delhi NCR and the strong growth in Sales and Finance roles indicate companies are willing to invest in entry-level talent to bring adaptability and new-age skills to the work. This serves as a benchmark for students to prepare for campus placements and recruiters to stay competitive in the race for young talent.

About GetWork

GetWork is a next-gen HR tech platform that leverages the power of agentic AI to redefine the hiring process. Its digital recruiters intelligently read job descriptions, source from a verified talent pool, engage candidates across phone, email, and WhatsApp, and continuously learn from HR feedback and candidate interactions to improve outcomes over time, saving recruiters over 100 hours a week. Further, GetWork’s GenAI-powered Horizon AI acts as a copilot for job seekers, offering mock interviews, personalised upskilling suggestions, and more, especially empowering candidates from Tier 2 and 3 cities and colleges.

With industry-trained agents, customizable recruiter behaviour, unified communication, and seamless integration with existing HR tools, GetWork.ai helps fast-growing teams scale hiring with speed, efficiency, and unmatched quality, transforming recruitment from a manual bottleneck into an automated growth engine. Since 2019, GetWork has enabled 50,000+ placements through a network of 900+ enterprise partners, including HDFC, Sharekhan, Motilal Oswal, and Aditya Birla Group.