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S&P 500 CEO pay rose 21% to a record $22.8 million in 2025, the AFL-CIO found. Excluding Elon Musk, the average compensation jumped, with boards using his Tesla and SpaceX packages as benchmarks.

Elon Musk was the highest-compensated CEO in 2025, earning as much as 2,522,203 average Tesla workers combined. The pay package came as Tesla profits dropped significantly, a decline Musk was largely personally responsible for.
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