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Data story · 27 Oct 2026
Annual Survey of Industries 2024-25 · MoSPI
Of every ₹100 a factory adds, ₹43 is profit. Shop-floor wages get ₹14.
India’s 2.67 lakh registered factories added ₹26.9 lakh crore of value in 2024-25 and hired 14 lakh more people. Here is where that value went.
₹42.9
net profit out of every ₹100 of gross value added
₹14.1
wages to shop-floor workers — 1.67 crore people
Where ₹100 of factory value goes
Share of gross value added, registered manufacturing, 2024-25
₹0₹50₹100
The same split, per head, per month
2.10 crore people engaged; 1.67 crore of them shop-floor workers
Wages kept climbing. Profit per head stopped.
Monthly wage per shop-floor worker vs annual net profit per person engaged
Wages per worker: +29% since 2020-21, +17% since 2021-22. Total factory profit: +88% since 2020-21 — but almost all of that came in the post-Covid rebound year (2020-21 base).
₹5.5 lakh
Net profit per person engaged in 2024-25 — no higher than in 2021-22. Factories grew by adding people and capital, not by earning more on each of them.
₹5.52 L (2021-22) → ₹5.50 L (2024-25). Invested capital rose 11.1% last year; net profit rose 7.7%.What it means for you
SalariedThe average shop-floor wage rose 5.3% last year, to ₹19,003 a month. Total pay for all staff, managers included, works out to ₹31,871.
FoundersA useful benchmark: each person in a factory adds about ₹12.8 lakh of value a year, and payroll takes about 30% of it.
Business leadersProfit per head has been flat for three years at about ₹5.5 lakh, while fixed capital per person is ₹24.3 lakh. Scale is rising faster than returns.
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