EVsFortuneabout 8 hours ago
CEO pay rose 13% in 2025, gap widens
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Median CEO total compensation rose 13% year-over-year to $4.75 million in fiscal year 2025, while the average climbed 26% to $8.96 million. Elon Musk earned $158.4 billion from a Tesla stock award, making him the highest-paid public company executive by a wide margin. C-Suite Comp removed Musk as a statistical outlier before calculating broader trends.
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