Elon Musk earned $158.3 billion at Tesla in 2025, over 2.5 million times the average worker's pay, highlighting the stark disparity between executive and employee compensation.

Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla have both approved compensation rewards that would add billions to the world’s largest fortune.

Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies