Elon Musk
Technoking of Tesla & Chief Executive Officer
Musk has run Tesla since 2008 without drawing a traditional salary. His last two Summary Compensation Table entries show a dash in every column. The real story sits in a courtroom, not a spreadsheet. Delaware's Court of Chancery voided his 2018 performance award in 2024, and the state's Supreme Court reversed part of that ruling in December 2025. Musk exercised part of the restored option that June, after Tesla's board had already approved a fresh 2025 award.
Total compensation
Grade A — Primary Document$0total, 2024
Tesla's 2024 Summary Compensation Table shows a dash in every column for Musk — salary, bonus, stock awards, options, everything — for fiscal 2024, 2023, and 2022 alike. The Total column is literally $0 as filed. That is not the full story. Musk's 2018 CEO Performance Award, worth billions in the years since, was rescinded by the Delaware Court of Chancery in January 2024 in Tornetta v. Musk; the Delaware Supreme Court reversed that rescission in December 2025, restoring his ability to exercise it. He exercised part of the restored award in June 2026 — after this proxy's fiscal-year coverage, so it appears nowhere in a Summary Compensation Table yet. Tesla's board separately approved a 2025 CEO Interim Award and put a new 2025 CEO Performance Award to shareholders in the same proxy. Treat the $0 as literally accurate and completely misleading about what Musk actually stands to receive.
- Filing
- DEF 14A
- Filed
- 2025-09-17
- Accession #
- 0001104659-25-090866
- Status
- contested
Reported equity holdings
Grade A — Primary Document$380,807,102,454as of 2026-06-16
1,123,324,786 shares × $339/share (Yahoo Finance, priced 2026-08-14 (intraday quote, market open))
Musk's most recent Form 4 shows him exercising 303,960,630 shares of the restored 2018 option on 2026-06-16, then losing 17,531,857 shares to tax withholding, for a direct balance of 710,172,677 shares. Add 413,152,109 shares held indirectly through the Elon Musk Revocable Trust and the total is 1,123,324,786 — Tesla common stock only. This excludes SpaceX, xAI, X, and every other Musk asset; those aren't SEC-reportable Tesla holdings and don't appear here.
- Filing
- Form 4
- As of
- 2026-06-16
- Price source
- Yahoo Finance
- Priced
- 2026-08-14 (intraday quote, market open)
Share value is a snapshot at the priced date, not a fixed mark — the underlying price moves the next trading session.