Tesla shareholders approved a historic $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk on November 6, 2025, marking an unprecedented moment in executive compensation that dwarfs the pay of every other technology industry leader.
The approval, backed by over 75% of voting shareholders, grants Musk stock options that could fundamentally reshape how CEOs are paid in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Musk's $1 trillion potential payout represents compensation on an entirely different scale from contemporary tech executives.
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To put this in perspective, the entire 10-year package exceeds the market capitalisation of many Fortune 500 companies and is approximately 18 times larger than his controversial 2018 pay package, which was valued at $56 billion.
The compensation is structured across 12 tranches of stock options that vest as Tesla achieves increasingly amb
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