New Delhi, June 25 -- More than half of GenZ employees across Delhi NCR are unhappy with their salary mainly due to higher cost of living, a new study has found.

According to a report by global HR and payroll platform Deel, salary dissatisfaction is highest in metro cities with Delhi-NCR leading at 55 per cent Gen Z workers unhappy with their pay, followed by Mumbai at 48 per cent and Chennai at 38 per cent.

Growing financial strain is a major contributor of the dissatisfaction in salary, the report said.

Top reasons attributed to the dissatisfaction includes lack of inflation-adjusted pay hikes (21 per cent), below-market compensation (19 per cent), salaries insufficient to cover needs beyond basic expenses (14 per cent) and poor sala...