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Musk’s $1.5 trillion pay proposal. Is he worth it?

Elizabeth Knight Business columnist September 8, 2025 — 3.48pm Advertisement

The $US1 trillion ($1.5 trillion) pay package the Tesla board has proposed for Elon Musk is one of those jaw-dropping statistics that takes some time for people to come to grips with.

Already the world’s richest man, the proposed compensation package would be worth more than the GDP of all but the 20 largest countries in the world. Obscene, disgusting or vulgar can’t begin to describe the notion of awarding one person that level of compensation for leading a company.

Elon Musk could be become the one-trillion-dollar man. Credit: AP

This is one for the history books, even for the US where corporate pay

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