MUMBAI | KOLKATA: Samsung India , the country’s largest consumer products company, has about 116 employees drawing more than Rs 1 crore in annual remunerations, but 70 per cent of them are Koreans.The Korean chaebol, which has been in India for two decades now and has since overtaken firms like Hindustan Unilever and ITC in revenues, still largely keeps Indian executives away from senior posts, reveals the company’s filing with the Registrar of Companies (RoC).As per RoC data, the number of people taking home more than Rs 1 crore a year at Samsung India swelled 22 per cent to 116 as of March 31, 2015 from 95 a year ago. And about 81 of them are Koreans. The firm’s wages expenses grow 18 per cent year on year to Rs 1,611 crore for the last fiscal.Head of a rival consumer electronics firm said Samsung has brought in several senior expats this fiscal as it stepped on the gas, significantly expanding its product portfolio, offering higher trade margin around Diwali, cutting costs and reducing manpower and non-performers. "Samsung is much more aggressive this year driven by headquarters and more senior expats joining the Indian team since it wants to overcome the poor growth this fiscal," he said.Samsung, which entered India in December 1995, reported its worst performance in more than a decade last fiscal when its net profit dropped 47 per cent year on year to Rs 1,398.5 crore. The company said this was because of high expenditure on growing the business and expanding retail footprint. Samsung India’s revenues rose 4 per cent in 2014-15 to Rs 39,443.3 crore fromRs 37,975.4 crore in the previous year.Samsung India did not respond specifically on the salary issue.A Samsung Southwest Asia spokesperson said the firm’s India revenue has increased this fiscal and it has consolidated its leadership in the market. "During the course of the current year, Samsung India has registered robust growth. Our devices — Galaxy S6, S6 edge, S6 edge + and Note 5, and other smartphones such as Galaxy J and A series, our maiden Tizen smartphones and SUHD TVs, to name a few — have been bestsellers in their respective categories," the person said.HR consultants said several companies from Far East tend to closely control the business from headquarters, necessitating more expats in top roles."While the Korean and Chinese companies follow a ratio of 70:30 or 80:20 in their employee base, whereby the dominating number of employees will be from the local market, the same rule is not followed for senior level roles," said James Agrawal, managing director (India & Thailand) at BTI Consultants, an executive search and HR consulting arm of Kelly Services. "This results in more number of expats earning top salaries or in top critical roles. This is a cultural issue in these corporates," he added.In absolute terms, Samsung ranks second only next to Hindustan Unilever, which has 169 employees earning more than Rs 1 crore, in crorepati club. Software services major Infosys has 113 employees earning eight-digit salary.YV Verma, a veteran HR professional who has spent more than a decade in he other big Korean consumer electronics firm, LG India, said there is a dearth of Indian talent at senior level or those who are skilled in the consumer electronics industry. "A lot of skilled executives are moving out of the industry due to high stress job and very few are joining which is why Indian top salary earners are becoming less," he said.