The Unpayable Gulp of Inequality The news that Elon Musk's 2025 compensation package would make him $158. 3 billion richer has sent shockwaves through the business community and beyond.
However, what's truly staggering is not just the sheer scale of his earnings but the yawning chasm it reveals between the haves and have nots in America. Musk's pay was a whopping 2.
5 million times higher than the median Tesla worker's annual salary of $57,243. During a typical 30 minute commute, he would already have banked more compensation than his entire workforce earned in an entire year.