Tesla Executive Compensation (FY24)
TSLA · Austin, TX · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2022 to 2024
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Data as of September 11, 2026Latest filing (8-K): November 7, 2025
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Frequently asked questions
Answers drawn from the data on this page.
What was Tesla's say-on-pay result?
Shareholders supported the say-on-pay proposal with 78.7% of votes cast for or against in favor at the meeting held November 6, 2025 for fiscal 2024.
What is Tesla's chief executive pay ratio?
The disclosed chief executive pay ratio for fiscal 2024 is 0:1, against median employee compensation of $57,243.
Executive compensation
Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal 2022
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zachary Kirkhorn Master of Coin and Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Andrew Baglino Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Elon Musk Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — not reported |
Fiscal 2023
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Xiaotong Zhu Senior Vice President, Automotive | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Andrew Baglino Former Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering Departed during or after this year | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Zachary Kirkhorn Former Master of Coin and Chief Financial Officer Departed during or after this year | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Vaibhav Taneja Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Elon Musk Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — not reported |
Fiscal 2024
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vaibhav Taneja Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Xiaotong Zhu Senior Vice President, APAC and Global Vehicle Manufacturing | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Andrew Baglino Former Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering Departed during or after this year | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Elon Musk Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — not reported |
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. A negative change in pension value is shown but, as the company reports it, not included in the total.
Equity awards granted
Individual awards as disclosed: type, date, unit counts at each level, and grant date value.
Fiscal 2024
| Officer | Award | Grant date | Threshold units | Target units | Units granted | Maximum units | Exercise price | Grant date fair value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaibhav Taneja | OPTION | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
| Vaibhav Taneja | OPTION | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
| Vaibhav Taneja | RSU | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
Fiscal 2023 are included in the PDF.
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. Threshold, target and maximum apply only to performance awards and are never shown for time-based or option awards.
Outstanding awards
Awards still held at fiscal year end.
As disclosed at fiscal 2024 year end
| Officer | Award | Unvested units | Market value of unvested units | Exercise price | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Zhu | Option | ◇ | — | ◇ | — |
| Vaibhav Taneja | Option | ◇ | — | ◇ | — |
| RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.
Director compensation
What each non-employee director was paid.
Fiscal 2022
| Director | Fees earned in cash | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hiromichi Mizuno | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
James Murdoch, Elon Musk, Ira Ehrenpreis, JB Straubel, Kimbal Musk, Robyn Denholm, Lawrence J. Ellison, Joe Gebbia and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson served on the board in fiscal 2022 and received no compensation for board service. Executive directors are typically paid through their executive roles, shown above.
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.
Director fee schedule
The standing retainers and premiums the board pays, as published.
| Board equity retainer | ◇ |
| Total board retainer | ◇ |
Equity is delivered as Options.
Disclosed peer group
The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.
Say-on-pay history
Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.
| Year | Meeting | Support | Votes for | Votes against | Abstentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | November 6, 2025 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2023 | June 13, 2024 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2022 | May 16, 2023 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2019 | September 22, 2020 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
Chief executive pay ratio
As calculated and reported by the company.
Ratio
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Median employee compensation
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Chief executive total compensation
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What this page does not include
Everything above is a fact Tesla disclosed, and it is free. Everything below is our analysis of those facts, and it is not.
Written compensation analysis
A read of the pay program as designed and as paid: incentive structure, goal rigor, the alignment between the committee's stated philosophy and what the numbers show.
Executive Compensation Report — $1,500Board and governance analysis
Committee composition, independence, director pay positioning, and the governance provisions read together rather than listed.
Board Governance Report — $1,200Realizable pay
What the awards above are actually worth today against what they were valued at on grant, and what the gap says about the pay-for-performance link.
Velarion IntelligenceAdviser switching and vote outcomes
Two datasets covering compensation-adviser changes and what followed a contested vote. Both are part of the Velarion platform.
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70 figures on this page: 66 cited to the filing that reported them, 4 calculated from figures it prints.
66 cited to the filing
4 calculated from the filing
Documents cited
- 0001104659-25-108507Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
- 0001104659-25-0908662024 Summary Compensation Table · CEO Pay Ratio · Compensation of Directors · Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 2024 · and 2 more sections
- 0001104659-24-071439Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
- 0001104659-24-053333Summary Compensation Table
- 0001564590-23-007379
- 0001193125-23-0940752022 Director Compensation Table · Summary Compensation Table
- 0001564590-20-044548
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Velarion Company Intelligence. (2026). Velarion database: executive and board compensation data (Version 2026Q3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854
BibTeX
@misc{velarionData2026,
author = {{Velarion Company Intelligence}},
title = {Velarion database: executive and board compensation data},
year = {2026},
version = {2026Q3},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22283854},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854}
}