Elon Musk tops list of highest-paid CEOs

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According to the Fortune 500 report, in the year 2021, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk were in first place in terms of highest salary.

  • In the year 2021, Elon Musk has received $23.5 billion (Rs 1.82 lakh crore) as salary. This also includes encashing stock options issued in 2018, which had a deadline of 2021.

  • After Musk, the list of the 10 highest-paid Fortune 500 CEOs of 2021 features all tech and biotech CEOs, including the heads of Apple, Netflix and Microsoft.

  • Apple's Tim Cook was the second highest-paid CEO, who received $ 77.05 million (about six thousand crore rupees) as salary in 2021.

  • Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang came third on the list with $507 million.

  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who was at number seven in this list, has received $ 3094 million in the year 2021 as salary.

  • Top 10 Highest Paid CEOs

  • Elon Musk (Tesla) - $23.5 billion

  • Tim Cook (Apple) - $770.5 million

  • Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) - $561 million

  • Reed Hastings (Netflix) - $453.5 million

  • Leonard Schlieffer Regeneron (Pharmaceuticals) - $452.9 million

  • Marc Benioff (Salesforce) – $439.4 million

  • Satya Nadella (Microsoft) – $309.4 million

  • Robert A. Kotik (Activision Blizzard) - $296.7 million

  • Hawk E. Tan (Broadcom) - $288 million

  • Saffra A. Katz (Oracle) - $239.5 million

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