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Tesla: Elon Musk earns $ 775 million if all goes well

2020-05-29T18:08:24.856Z


Tesla boss Elon Musk does not receive a regular salary - but benefits when the group meets certain requirements. Now it seems to be so far.


Tesla boss Elon Musk does not receive a regular salary - but benefits when the group meets certain requirements. Now it seems to be so far.

  • The US electric car maker Tesla  made  good profits before the Corona crisis .
  • A  special compensation plan applies to Tesla boss Elon Musk .
  • The Board of Directors has now announced that an  "important threshold" has been reached.

Palo Alto - Elon Musk currently has little reason to complain. The head of the Tesla electric car group recently had trouble with the US authorities  in the corona crisis *  - contrary to the pandemic , he wanted to restart  production at the Tesla plant in California . But in early May he had a child with Canadian singer Claire Elise Boucher aka Grimes . And now he can look forward to a huge win .

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The Tesla founder does not have a salary paid out, but receives more shares in his company if successful. "2019 was a record year," the board of directors said on Thursday: Musk will therefore have access to a share package that would currently give him just under $ 775 million in profit on paper. The founder already owns 18.5 percent of the company.

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Tesla boss Elon Muska: mega compensation plan over $ 775 million

The compensation for the boss was regulated in 2018: Musk received 20.3 million Tesla shares for his work over a period of ten years , divided into packages . He will receive these packages little by little if the market value , production , delivery , sales and profits each exceed certain thresholds. 

In a message to the US stock exchange regulator, the board of directors now announced that the first threshold had been reached, Musk would receive a first package with 1.69 million shares. That is one percent of the company.

The founder can buy the 1.69 million shares at the 2018 agreed price of $ 350.02 each - if he were to sell them again, the profit would be considerable: On Thursday, Tesla's shares were sold on Wall Street in New York for 805, Traded $ 81. The profit would be $ 774.84 million. However, the announcement to the stock exchange regulator continues that Musk must hold the shares for at least five years.

Compensation for Tesla founder Elon Musk: "Important threshold" reached.

The compensation agreement defines twelve thresholds that Tesla is to achieve. In 2028, the market value is expected to be around $ 650 billion. Tesla has now reached the "important threshold" of $ 20 billion in annual sales and $ 100 billion in market value, as the Board of Directors said in a letter to the regulator.

Musk is also the founder of the private space company SpaceX * . A mission to the International Space Station should start on Wednesday ; it was postponed to Saturday due to bad weather.

dpa / AFP / frs

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

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