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Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025

Steady3 outlets reported this in 4 reports over 4 days
Thu, 13 August 2026Thu, 27 August 2026

What it is about

Elon MuskCEOTeslaUSMuskTeslinTesliCEOsInstitute for Policy StudiesIPS

Who published it, and when

original reportfirst to report
The Guardian World1 original report1 original report
Al Jazeera English1 original report
13 Aug, 16:31over 14 days27 Aug, 11:00

1 report left out of the cascade - too little in common with the story to place

How it spread - 4 original reports

  1. Thu, 13 August 2026

    1 report
    • The Guardian World16:31first to report

      Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies Elon Musk received over 2.5m times as much compensation at Tesla as the company’s average worker, according to a new report on the growing gap between top corporate executives and their workers. Musk’s $158.3bn pay deal was an outlier but came as the gap between CEO and worker pay continued to grow . Excluding Musk, last year the average ratio of CEO to worker pay for the top S&P 500...

  2. Fri, 14 August 2026

    1 report
  3. Tue, 18 August 2026

    1 report
  4. Thu, 27 August 2026

    1 report
    • The Guardian World11:00

      Analysis by Institute for Policy Studies found that between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4% The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned 614 times more than their average worker last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). IPS’s latest executive excess report analyzed compensation at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay. Between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%, unadjusted...

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