Commerce

Commerce career routes

If you took Accountancy, Business Studies or Economics in class 11. Browse the job routes researched so far, then open one for its pay ladder and entry requirements.

28 routes

Commerce

Actuary (actuarial science)

You use mathematics and probability to put a price on things that might go wrong — someone dying young, a flood, a hospital stay — so an insurance company or a pension fund can afford to pay when they do.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹4.0–8.0 LPA
How long
6 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Assistant professor and college lecturer

You teach a college subject and develop academic work in that field.

Pay basis
University gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹11.77–14.54 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Bank Probationary Officer (public sector banks)

You clear one national exam after any degree and join a government-owned bank as a trainee officer, on track to run a branch.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹10–15 LPA
How long
3.5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Central government officer through SSC CGL

A graduate recruitment exam leads to administrative, tax, audit and investigation posts.

Pay basis
Government gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹8.97–10.93 LPA
How long
3 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Chartered Accountant (CA)

You train for years under a practising accountant and then sign off on whether a company's accounts are telling the truth.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹6.0–13 LPA
How long
4.5 yr
Cost
₹49,000

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Company Secretary (CS)

You are the person inside a company whose job is to keep it on the right side of the law — every board meeting, every filing, every disclosure.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹4.0–8.0 LPA
How long
4 yr
Cost
₹50,000

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Constable in central armed police forces

You perform uniformed security duties after recruitment open at school level.

Pay basis
Government gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹4.51–5.64 LPA
How long
0 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Cost and Management Accountant (CMA)

You work out what things actually cost a company to make — and therefore what it can afford to charge, and where it is quietly losing money.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹5.0–10 LPA
How long
3.5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Data analyst and data scientist

You use data, statistics and computing to answer practical questions.

Pay basis
Pay evidence incomplete
Entry pay · first role
Not established
How long
4 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Economics degree (policy, research and financial regulation)

You study why prices rise, why people lose jobs and what a government decision actually does — and go into work where somebody has to answer those questions with data.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹4.0–10 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
₹17,105

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Equity research and investment banking

You either work out what a company is really worth and tell investors whether to buy its shares, or you help companies raise money and buy each other.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹6.0–18 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Financial planning and wealth management

You help people decide what to do with their money — how much to save, where to invest it, how to pay for a house or a parent's illness — and in India that advice is licensed work.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹3.0–8.0 LPA
How long
4 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Government clerk and data-entry work after class 12

You handle records, correspondence or data entry in a public office.

Pay basis
Government gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹3.99–4.8 LPA
How long
0 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Gramin Dak Sevak with India Post

You provide local postal services under a separate engagement system.

Pay basis
India Post starting allowance
Entry pay · first role
₹1.2–1.44 LPA
How long
0 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Human resources professional

You work on hiring, development and employee relations.

Pay basis
HR programme: median CTC
Placement example
₹28 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Insurance officer (life and general insurance)

You decide who an insurance company will cover, at what price, and whether a claim gets paid — a graduate-entry officer job at a public insurer or a private one.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹7.0–13 LPA
How long
3.5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Management consultant

You help organisations analyse problems and plan changes.

Pay basis
MBA cohort: fixed-cash median
Placement example
₹25.59 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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MBA through CAT (management)

You finish any three-year degree, sit the CAT entrance exam, and if a business school takes you, two years there puts you into the management ranks of a company.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹5.0–16 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Nursery and pre-primary teacher

You support young children through play, language, routines and early learning.

Pay basis
Delhi public-post basic-pay example
Entry pay · first role
₹4.25 LPA
How long
2 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Officer at a financial regulator

You help supervise financial institutions, markets or development finance.

Pay basis
SEBI published starting package
Entry pay · first role
₹17.16–22.08 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Physical education teacher

You teach movement, fitness and sports safely, and organise school games.

Pay basis
Government gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹8.97–10.93 LPA
How long
4 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Postgraduate teacher: commerce subjects

You teach a subject in classes 11–12 after subject study and teacher training.

Pay basis
Government gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹9.48–11.54 LPA
How long
7 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Primary teacher: classes 1–5

You help younger pupils build reading, writing, numeracy and classroom skills.

Pay basis
Government gross example
Entry pay · first role
₹7.14–8.76 LPA
How long
2 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Product manager

You coordinate what a product should do and how a team improves it.

Pay basis
MBA cohort: fixed-cash median
Placement example
₹28.51 LPA
How long
5 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Railway Level 1 operational posts

You support track, station or maintenance operations in a railway unit.

Pay basis
Railway basic-pay illustration
Entry pay · first role
₹2.16 LPA
How long
0 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Running a business (entrepreneurship and family business)

You own the thing instead of working for it — either something you start yourself or a business your family already runs — and you are paid whatever is left after everyone else is paid.

Pay basis
Editorial estimates
Entry pay · first role
₹0.0–12 LPA
How long
3 yr
Cost
Not stated

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Station master and graduate railway posts

You help run railway operations or administration through graduate recruitment.

Pay basis
Railway basic-pay illustration
Entry pay · first role
₹4.25 LPA
How long
3 yr
Cost
Not stated