Tesla offers pay package to CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion

[LiberalArkie]

Source: CBSNEWS

September 5, 2025 / 8:05 AM EDT

Tesla's board is asking shareholders to approve a new pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion in a decade, representing one of the richest compensation packages in corporate history.

According to a regulatory filing published Friday, the electric car maker's board wants to award Musk about 423 million shares, which today have a value of $143 billion, if the company hits certain profitability, production and market capitalization milestones.

To earn the full pay package, Tesla would have to reach a market cap of $8.5 trillion — about eight times its current value — in 10 years. At that level, the stock awarded to Musk would be worth more than $1 trillion.

The entrepreneur's previous compensation has drawn legal challenges. In 2018, Tesla investors filed a lawsuit challenging Musk's $56 billion pay package, alleging that he and the company's board had breached their fiduciary duties. In December, a Delaware judge ordered the company to revoke that award.

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[UpInArms]

1. WTaF

Eloonatic is not worth a three dollar bill.

[mdbl]

2. Will never buy a Tesla

Or do anything else to support this greedy asshole including any of his online crap like X, etc.

[Buddyzbuddy]

3. After he almost single handedly destroyed Tesla?

I thought the board was supposed to do what's best for stockholders, not a stockholder? In spite of being the largest stockholder. Without Leon, the stock price should rise, shouldn't it?

[bronxiteforever]

4. So a trillionaire orchestrated the firing of career public servants

Who spent their lives in service of ourCountry. Tell me again how the GOP loves America?

[Bengus81]

5. He trashes the Company rep with DOGE and hanging with Fat Hitler and he should be rewarded??

Those shareholders can't be that stupid can they?

[angrychair]

6. Eat. The. Rich

That's it. It's not the money in itself, it's that the power and influence of billionaires, all billionaires, is antithetical to a normal, functioning society.

Down with all billionaires.

[LiberalArkie]

7. If they had been taxed at the 70-90% pre-Reagan "create the billionaire class" tax cut, they would not have the power

they have nor the money. And we would probably be on the moon, have a real national health care system and an eductional system like Europe.

[RainCaster]

8. So much of the world is boycotting Tesla...

... because of what this clown did with his DOGE actions. Why is the Tesla board rewarding him when they should be firing him?

[LudwigPastorius]

16. "Why is the Tesla board rewarding him when they should be firing him?"

...because they know that a huge part of the value of Tesla stock is based on Elon's continuous spew of hyped bullshit.

If they fired him and hired a non-drug-addled CEO with an engineering background, who wasn't a Nazi, the price of Tesla stock would plummet to where it should be based on the company's earnings.

[groundloop]

9. Screw employees and customers in order to reward this idiot.

That a company can afford to pay a CEO that much money tells me that they're overcharging their customers and severely underpaying their employees. Totally messed up.

[Nigrum Cattus]

10. another reason to not buy a tesla

No one is worth that, no one

[OnlinePoker]

11. That only works if Tesla continues to survive.

With the reduction/elimination of subsidies, you're going to see a large reduction in the number of EVs sold and Tesla's brand is tarnished due to Elon, so they won't be selling anywhere near what they used to.

[travelingthrulife]

12. All those inspections and lawsuits against Tesla that Donnie made go away will

likely help them a lot. He is still getting subsidies as his needs were met. Lots of work-arounds for good old Elon.

[Martin68]

13. They are rewarding the asshole who has trashed Tesla's reputation.

[Queso Delicioso]

14. Well, they say you rise to your level of incompetence, so that tracks.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. His brain is worth more than that on Mars.

Two trillion bucks, easy.

[Mr. Sparkle]

17. One of the greatest thieves of modern times.

[popsdenver]

18. Musk just wants to

humiliate Trump, and everyone else, to being the world's first Trillionaire?????