Elon Musk’s Tesla Compensation Totals $158 Billion for 2025 (2)

Tesla Inc. tallied up Elon Musk’s annual compensation for the first time since shareholders approved his moonshot pay package, and it’s a doozy: $158 billion.

The 2025 total was revealed in a regulatory filing late Thursday, about six months after investors signed off on a $1 trillion stock award for the electric-car maker’s longtime chief executive officer.

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The staggering figure is exceptional even in the context of increasingly large packages for executives seen as visionary and essential to the success of the companies they lead. Musk turned Tesla into the EV market leader — and became the world’s ...