Tesla Paid Musk $158 Billion at Giga Texas
August 16, 2026
$158.3 billion on the books. Quarterly profits fell 61%. 2.5 million times the median worker.
Tesla booked $158 billion for Elon Musk in a year Giga Texas was still punching the clock, and the median worker in that filing sat at $57,243 while quarterly profits fell 61 percent, a gap you can walk from the CEO line to the plant gate without changing the subject.
The award is mostly an accounting valuation of stock that has not vested, so nobody cashed a check that size, and the factory still has to make the cars the milestones assume will exist.