Tesla Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) Elon Musk is reportedly the highest-paid Fortune 500 CEO in the United States. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA), and Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) chief executives are some of the others who also feature in the list
Musk Leads By A Big Margin
Musk, who also heads SpaceX, was the most compensated Fortune 500 CEO, according to a Fortune report. His 2021 compensation was worth $23.5 billion. He scored the biggest CEO payday last year after exercising Tesla stock options.
The options were granted in his 2018 pay package and came in the form of 20.3 million stock option awards divided into 12 tranches of 1.69 million shares each.
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