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Tesla Executive Compensation (FY25)

TSLA · Austin, TX · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2022 to 2025
Chief executive, fiscal 2025
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Elon Musk
Includes a multi-year grant valued at $132,298,849,867. The filing says: “2025 CEO Performance Award: 423,743,904 shares of performance-based restricted stock in 12 tranches; "each of the 12 tranches of the 2025 CEO Performance Award will become 'Earned Shares' upon Mr. Musk remaining in Eligible Service ... and the certification by disinterested directors that the following have been achieved: (i) the market capitalization milestone for such tranche and (ii) any one of the four operational milestones focused on strategic product goals ... or eight operational milestones focused on Adjusted EBITDA"; "None of the tranches have become Earned Shares." The related 2025 CEO Interim Award ($26,060,160,000 grant date fair value) "was forfeited in its entirety in April 2026."”. Total without the grant: $26,060,160,000.
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Who is Tesla's chief executive and what were they paid?
Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer, received $158,359,009,867 in total compensation for fiscal 2025.
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.

Executive compensation

Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal 2022
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Andrew Baglino
Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering
◇—————◇◇
Zachary Kirkhorn
Master of Coin and Chief Financial Officer
◇—————◇◇
Elon Musk
Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer
———————— not reported
Fiscal 2023
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Tom 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
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Vaibhav Taneja
Chief Financial Officer
◇—◇◇——◇◇
Tom 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
Fiscal 2025
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Elon Musk
Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer
——◇————◇
Includes a multi-year grant valued at $132,298,849,867. The filing says: “2025 CEO Performance Award: 423,743,904 shares of performance-based restricted stock in 12 tranches; "each of the 12 tranches of the 2025 CEO Performance Award will become 'Earned Shares' upon Mr. Musk remaining in Eligible Service ... and the certification by disinterested directors that the following have been achieved: (i) the market capitalization milestone for such tranche and (ii) any one of the four operational milestones focused on strategic product goals ... or eight operational milestones focused on Adjusted EBITDA"; "None of the tranches have become Earned Shares." The related 2025 CEO Interim Award ($26,060,160,000 grant date fair value) "was forfeited in its entirety in April 2026."”. Total without the grant: $26,060,160,000.
Vaibhav Taneja
Chief Financial Officer
◇—————◇◇
Tom Zhu
SVP, APAC and Global Vehicle Manufacturing
◇—————◇◇
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 2025
OfficerAwardGrant dateThreshold unitsTarget unitsUnits grantedMaximum unitsExercise priceGrant date fair value
Elon MuskRSU◇——◇——◇
Elon MuskPSU◇◇————◇
Fiscal 2023, 2024 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 2025 year end
OfficerAwardUnvested unitsMarket value of unvested unitsExercise priceExpires
Elon MuskPSU◇◇——
RSU◇◇——
Vaibhav TanejaOption◇—◇October 31, 2034
RSU◇◇——
Tom ZhuOption◇—◇May 19, 2033
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.

Severance and change in control

The terms as written in the agreements.
Elon Musk
Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer · Offer letter
Change-in-control trigger◇
Equity acceleration on change in control◇
Excise tax treatment◇
Clawback◇

Director compensation

What each non-employee director was paid.
Fiscal 2022
DirectorFees earned in cashStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
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.

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.
YearMeetingSupportVotes forVotes againstAbstentions
2024November 6, 2025=◇◇◇
2023June 13, 2024=◇◇◇
2022May 16, 2023=◇◇◇
2019September 22, 2020=◇◇◇

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- Elon Musk (Technoking of Tesla and Chief Executive Officer), FY2025 total compensation $158,359,009,867 (base salary an undisclosed amount) [exec_comp, SEC accession 0001104659-26-053166, filed 2026-04-30]

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Citations

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76 figures on this page: 72 cited to the filing that reported them, 4 calculated from figures it prints.
72 cited to the filing
4 calculated from the filing

Documents cited

  1. 0001104659-26-116700
    2025 Summary Compensation Table · Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 2025 · Outstanding Equity Awards at 2025 Fiscal Year-End
  2. 0001104659-26-053166
  3. 0001104659-25-108507
    Proposal 2 was a management proposal to approve executive compensation on a non-binding advisory basis.
  4. 0001104659-25-090866
    2024 Summary Compensation Table
  5. 0001104659-24-071439
    Proposal 2 was a management proposal to approve executive compensation on a non-binding advisory basis.
  6. 0001104659-24-053333
    Summary Compensation Table
  7. 0001564590-23-007379
  8. 0001193125-23-094075
    2022 Director Compensation Table · Summary Compensation Table
  9. 0001564590-20-044548
  10. 0001193125-10-017054
    Employment Agreement
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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
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@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}
}
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