The Wall Street Journal

How Much Should the World’s Richest Man Get Paid?

Tesla must decide how to pay Elon Musk, who has demanded a bigger stake and whose last package has been thrown out

Elon Musk was the lowest-paid chief executive of an S&P 500 company last year. Tesla paid him $0.

It has been that way for several years amid a legal battle over a monster stock award in 2018. A court has twice thrown out Musk’s pay package—calling the process of creating it flawed despite two votes of support from shareholders. 

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