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Elon Musk pay plan

ended 05. September 2025

A journalist at Reuters has come across a filing from Tesla proposing a new 2025 pay plan for CEO Elon Musk. It’s a performance-based restricted stock that Musk can earn only if big targets are met. Estimated value at grant (for accounting purposes) is about $87.75 billion if all potential awards are ultimately earned. This is not guaranteed pay. There are 12 market-cap milestones, 12 operational milestones. Musk could only receive shares in 12 tranches if Tesla both reaches and sustains very high market-cap levels and hits defined product/EBITDA targets. Any thoughts on this, send them across ASAP as the story is being written today.

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Mary Maguire
Managing Director at Astute Recruitment Ltd
If Mission Impossible did performance pay agreements it would be as complex as the hoops given to Elon Musk to jump through. Given the challenges at Tesla currently, I'm not surprised.
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Following Musk’s brief flirtation with Team Trump, alienating a lot of existing and future stakeholders, he may have a mountain to climb to meet these targets.