Elon Musk Tops CEO Pay List at $132.3 Billion as Top-100 Median Jumps 35.8%
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 5
Elon Musk Tops CEO Pay List at $132.3 Billion as Top-100 Median Jumps 35.8%
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 5
Summary
$132.3 billion in 2025 compensation put Elon Musk far ahead of every other U.S. public-company chief executive in Equilar’s annual survey for The New York Times.
That package was 153 times larger than runner-up Dylan Field’s $864.4 million at Figma and about 2.5 million times what the typical Tesla employee made.
Seven other public-company CEOs also received at least $100 million last year, the survey found, the highest count on record.
Median pay for the 100 highest-paid CEOs climbed to a record $39.4 million, up 35.8% in a year, underscoring a widening surge in executive compensation.
Welltower CEO Shankh Mitra ranked third at $821 million even after shareholders cast a rare nonbinding vote against the package last month.