Kathmandu. Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) leading the banking and financial sector earn a salary of more than Rs. 10 million. Since banking is more transparent than other sectors, bankers' salaries are mentioned in financial reports. While the salaries and allowances of CEOs of 12 banks increased in the fiscal year 2080/81, those of 8 CEOs decreased.

Gorakha Rana
Gorakha Rana is the CEO of Standard Chartered Bank. Standard Chartered Bank paid Rs. 85,198,991 as salary, allowances and bonuses to the CEO in the last fiscal year 2080/81. Which is 131.43 percent or Rs. 48,385,000 more than the previous year. The bank had paid Rs. 36,813,709 (excluding tax) as salary, allowances and bonuses to the CEO in the previous fiscal year 2079/80.

Gyanendra Prasad Dhungana

Gyanendra Prasad Dhungana is the CEO of Nabil Bank. Nabil Bank paid CEO Dhungana a salary of Rs 23.65783 last year. He received Rs 13.253226 as net salary, Rs 9.557363 as other benefits and facilities, and Rs 7.95194 as retirement benefits from the bank. Last year, the bank paid the CEO a salary of Rs 15.920633. Of which, Rs 7.920,000 was net salary, Rs 7.28663 as other benefits, and Rs 7.922,000 was paid as retirement benefits.

Govinda Gurung

Gurung is the CEO of Krishi Bikas Bank. Some positive indicators have been seen since he took over the reins of this bank. Krishi Bikas Bank paid the CEO a salary of Rs 6.694220 last year. Last year, the bank paid Rs 4.6 million 847 to the CEO. The former CEO of the bank, Anil Kumar Upadhyay, received Rs 2.3 million 30 thousand 780 and the current CEO Gurung received Rs 2.2 million 70 thousand 67.

Sudesh Khaling

CEO Khaling has a unique identity in the Nepali banking sector. By becoming the first Nepali CEO of Everest Bank, which also has foreign investment, he has taken the bank to a new level. Now, when bad loans are increasing in the banking sector, he alone has kept the bank's bad loans at a minimum point. He is known in the banking sector as an excellent manager.

Everest Bank paid CEO Khaling a salary of Rs 73.6 million 65 thousand 123 last year. Which is an increase of 29.08 percent or Rs 3.2 million compared to the previous year.

Koirala is the CEO of Machhapuchhre Bank. He is now the president of the Nepal Bankers Association. Machhapuchhre Bank paid CEO Koirala Rs 18.681 crore last year. Of which Rs 7.419 crore was paid as salary, Rs 6.720 crore as allowance, Rs 1.634 crore as facilities and Rs 2.97 crore as bonus.

Roshan Kumar Neupane
Roshan Neupane, who has made a name for himself as the youngest CEO in the banking sector, is the CEO of NIC Asia Bank. NIC Asia Bank paid Rs 35.587 crore to CEO Neupane last year.

Rs 28,894,635 has been provided for salary and allowances, Rs 6,456,583 for employee bonus, Rs 91,500 for other amounts and Rs 1,44,473 for other facilities. Under other facilities, the bank has provided a vehicle and driver, along with insurance, taxes, maintenance and other expenses.

Tilakraj Pandey

Tilakraj Pandey is a banker who has returned to the leadership of a bank after working in the banking sector for a long time. He is the CEO of Nepal Bank. Nepal Bank has stated that it paid Rs 6.5 million to the CEO last year. The monthly salary of the bank's CEO is Rs 400,000.

On this basis, the CEO has received Rs 4.8 million as salary and the remaining amount has been received as allowances and other benefits. In the previous year 2079/80, the bank had paid Rs 5.48 million to the CEO. The salary amount was received by former CEO Krishna Bahadur Adhikari.

Ajay Bikram Shah
Laxmi Sunrise Bank has paid Rs 19.48 million to CEO Ajay Bikram Shah last year. Of which Rs 15.58 million was paid as salary and allowances and Rs 3.89 million as other benefits. The bank had paid Rs 17.26 million as salary to the CEO last year. In which Rs 14.511 crore was provided as salary and allowances and Rs 27.52 lakh as other benefits. According to the bank, last year's employee bonus is included under other benefits.

Ramchandra Khanal

Kumari Bank paid Rs 26.559 crore to CEO Ramchandra Khanal last year. The salary and allowances were provided to the bank's former CEO Ramesh Raj Aryal and the current CEO Ramchandra Khanal. The bank paid Rs 13.751 crore to former CEO Aryal and Rs 13.751 crore to CEO Khanal.

Last year, the bank paid Rs 24.299 crore as remuneration to the CEO. In which Rs 14.910 crore was provided to former CEO Aryal and Rs 9.298 crore to CEO Khanal.

Nischaljung Pandey
Sanima Bank has paid Rs 11.936 crore as remuneration to CEO Nischalraj Pandey last year. In which the bank paid Rs 9.6 million to the CEO as short-term employee benefits, Rs 1.28 million as payment for festival allowance and annual leave and Rs 1.056 crore as post-employment benefits. The previous year 2079/80, the bank had paid Rs 11.4 million to CEO Pandey.

Surendra Raj Regmi

Global IME Bank has paid Rs 15.657 crore as salary to the CEO last year. Of which, Rs 759,000,000 was for salary, Rs 504,000,000 for allowance, Rs 759,000,600 for provident fund, Rs 1,28,786 for leave and Rs 1,053,000 for Dashain allowance. Similarly, the bank has stated that it has paid Rs 65,000,8461 for employee bonus, Rs 58,998 for telephone and mobile expenses, Rs 1,83,828 for vehicle maintenance and Rs 3,72,000 for fuel.

The bank had paid Rs 15,51,600 as remuneration to the CEO in the financial year 2079/080. Of which, Rs 759,000,000 was for salary, Rs 504,000,000 for allowance, Rs 759,000,600 for provident fund, Rs 1,053,000 for leave and Rs 1,053,000 for Dashain allowance. In addition, Rs. 60,050,055 was paid as employee bonus, Rs. 37,936 for telephone and mobile expenses, Rs. 363,120 for vehicle maintenance and Rs. 13,715 for fuel.

Ashok Rana
Himalayan Bank paid Rs. 21,152,329 as salary and allowances to CEO Ashok Rana last year. The bank has stated that Rs. 18.6 million was paid as salary, Rs. 15,500,000 as allowances, Rs. 13,40,031 for telephone and mobile expenses and Rs. 12,298 as miscellaneous.

The bank has paid Rs. 21,146,8259 as salary and allowances to the CEO last year. The bank has stated that Rs 18.6 million was paid as salary, Rs 1.5 million as allowance, Rs 1.3 million as telephone and mobile expenses, and Rs 12,298 as miscellaneous.

Ram Kumar Tiwari

Sunil KC

NMB Bank paid Rs 24.1 million as salary and remuneration to CEO Sunil KC last year. Of which, Rs 9 million was paid as salary, Rs 9 million as provident fund, Rs 8.5 million as allowance, Rs 5.7 million as bonus and welfare, and Rs 45,000 as others.

In the fiscal year 2079/80, Rs 24.818 million was paid for salaries and wages. Of this, Rs 9 million was paid for salaries, Rs 90 million for provident fund, Rs 8.5 million for allowances, Rs 6.336 million for bonuses and welfare, and Rs 82.199 for others.

Devendra Raman Khanal

The salary and allowance were received by the bank's former CEO Kiran Kumar Shrestha and CEO Devendra Raman Khanal. According to the bank, former CEO Shrestha received Rs 4,99,652 and CEO Khanal received Rs 836,137. Shrestha retired on Chaitra 28, 2080.

Ganeshraj Pokharel

CEO Ganesh Pokharel of Citizens Bank received a total salary of Rs 16.532 crore last year. The bank paid CEO Pokharel Rs 8.4 lakhs as salary, Rs 5.4 lakhs as allowance, Rs 1.15 lakhs as Dashain allowance, Rs 8.4 lakhs as provident fund contribution, Rs 7 lakhs as leave payment and Rs 42 thousand others. According to the bank, the net salary and allowances are Rs 9.438 lakhs as leave payment and Rs 42 thousand. CEO Pokharel has paid Rs 7.193 lakhs as income tax.

Sanjeev Manandhar

Prime Commercial Bank has paid Rs 17,196,229 to CEO Sanjeev Manandhar last year. Of which, he was given Rs 8,191,419 as salary, Rs 6,185,668 as allowance, Rs 1,219,000 as Dashain allowance and Rs 8,19,042 as provident fund. In addition, the bank has also arranged for the CEO of the bank to have a driver, fuel and vehicle facilities for office purposes.

The bank had paid Rs 2,107,800 to the CEO in the previous year 2079/80. Rs 180,000 was paid as salary, Rs 85,000,000 as allowance, Rs 14,000,000 as Dashain allowance and Rs 1,000,000 as provident fund. The salary and allowance were paid to former CEO Narayandas Manandhar.

Sundar Prasad Kandel
Siddharth Bank paid Rs 17,000,000 to CEO Sundar Prasad Kandel last year. 
Rs 9,639,000 was paid as salary, Rs 40,000,000 as allowance, Rs 1,100,000 as Dashain allowance, Rs 450,000 as annual leave allowance and Rs 1,756,800 as vehicle allowance, the bank said.

The bank said that the CEO was paid up to Rs 25,000 annually for newspaper and internet charges and Rs 3,000 monthly for telephone charges. The bank had paid Rs 21,000,000 as allowance to the CEO last year.

Jyoti Prakash Pandey
Nepal Investment Mega Bank has paid Rs 41.249 million 157 to CEO Jyoti Prakash Pandey. Of which Rs 16.076 million 52 as salary, Rs 17.17356 as allowance, Rs 22.333 million 784 as Dashain allowance, Rs 16.766 million 605 as provident fund and Rs 16.15360 as bonus.

In the previous year 2079/80, Rs 53.795 million was paid to the CEO. Of which Rs 16.076 million 52 as salary, Rs 17.17356 as allowance, Rs 22.333 million 784 as Dashain allowance, Rs 16.676 million 7652 as provident fund, Rs 16.469 million 146 as bonus and Rs 6.6665 million 6.597 as leave.

Ashok Sherchan

The bank had paid Rs 47.07 crore to the CEO last year. Rs 29.685 crore was paid as salary, Rs 64.54 lakh as employee bonus and Rs 45.67 lakh as Dashain and holiday allowance.