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

The 2025 full was revealed successful a regulatory filing precocious Thursday, astir six months aft investors signed disconnected connected a $1 trillion banal grant for the electric-car maker’s longtime main enforcement officer.

The staggering fig is exceptional adjacent successful the discourse of progressively ample packages for executives seen arsenic visionary and indispensable to the occurrence of the companies they lead. Musk turned Tesla into the EV marketplace person — and became the world’s richest idiosyncratic successful the process — though the shaper has struggled of precocious with rising contention retired of China and a comparatively stagnant merchandise lineup.

The billionaire precocious has turned his attraction to different parts of his concern empire, peculiarly the rocket shaper SpaceX, which is attempting to signifier the biggest archetypal nationalist offering of each clip successful June. Thursday’s filing offered caller penetration into the overlap betwixt his companies, revealing that Tesla generated much than fractional a cardinal dollars successful gross past twelvemonth from selling products to different Musk-run companies.

The bulk of the income — astir $430.1 cardinal — came from doing concern with xAI, Musk’s artificial quality startup, Tesla archetypal disclosed successful January. The automaker added this week that it besides recognized different $143.3 cardinal successful gross from SpaceX. Bloomberg News reported past period that SpaceX apt had purchased much than $100 cardinal worthy of Cybertrucks, the company’s slow-selling electrical pickup, successful the 4th fourth of past year.

Tesla didn’t instantly respond to a petition for further details.

Tesla shares were small changed arsenic of 9:37 a.m. Friday successful New York. The banal fell 15% this twelvemonth done Thursday’s close, trailing the much than 5% emergence successful the benchmark S&P 500 Index.

Compensation Caveats

The caller disclosure connected Musk’s head-turning wage came with immoderate large caveats. There whitethorn beryllium “significant disconnect” betwixt what the institution reports arsenic Musk’s full compensation successful a fixed twelvemonth “and the worth really realized,” Tesla said successful the filing.

There are respective reasons the disclosed figures are uncoupled from reality. For one, the unprecedented wage bundle awarded past twelvemonth consisted wholly of equity grant grants. It was structured truthful that the CEO volition lone currency successful if Tesla’s banal soars and the institution achieves assorted operational milestones.