In 2021, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will be paid $23.5 billion or 1.82 lakh crore rupees in Indian rupees, the highest salary in the world. Elon Musk, the owner of companies such as Tesla and SpaceX and the wealthiest person globally, also ranks first in terms of the highest salary among the world’s Fortune 500 companies. According to Fortune’s list, Elon Musk earns more than the CEO of any company in the world.
On April 14, 2022, Elon Musk offered to buy the American social media platform Twitter for $43 billion. In 2021, Elon Musk will receive $23.5 billion or 1.82 lakh kroner in Indian rupees as salary. Electric car company Musk is ranked 65th among Fortune 500 companies. Apple’s Tim Cook is the second-highest-paid CEO. In 2021, he received $77.05 million, which is about 6,000 kroner in salary. Apple ranks third also on the list of Fortune 500 companies.
Jenson Huang, co-founder, and CEO of American multinational technology company Nvidia, is the third highest-paid CEO globally with $507 million.
Netflix CEO Reid Hastings is fourth on the list. What is unique about this list of the highest-paid people is that all the executive directors are from technology also biotechnology companies.
Including the name of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela. He ranks seventh among the highest-paid CEOs. He received $30.94 million in salary in 2021. Nadela has run Bill Gates’ Microsoft company for six years.
According to the Institute for Economic Policy report, the CEO of a mid-sized company earns 351 times the average salary in real terms. Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth jumped from $12.2 billion to $224 billion. However, by 2022, his net worth fell by $46.4 billion.
Automaker Musk Tesla generated $53.8 billion in total sales in 2021, 71 percent more than 2020.