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Fortune 500 list: Elon Musk, world’s richest man, was 2021’s highest paid CEO

Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX highest-paid executive in the world. Musk has topped the Fortune’s new list of the most highly compensated CEOs on the Fortune 500. In 2021, Musk “realized” compensation worth almost USD 23.5 billion, from exercising some Tesla stock options awarded in a 2018 multiyear “moonshot” grant. After Musk, the 10 most highly compensated Fortune 500 CEOs of 2021 are all tech and biotech CEOs, including the heads of Apple, Netflix, and Microsoft.

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List of top 10 most highly compensated CEOs:

Elon Musk, Tesla: USD 23.5 Billion
Tim Cook, Apple: USD 770.5 Million
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA: USD 561 Million
Reed Hastings, Netflix: USD 453.5 Million
Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals: USD 452.9 Million
Marc Benioff, Salesforce: USD 439.4 Million
Satya Nadella, Microsoft: USD 309.4 Million
Robert A. Kotick, Activision Blizzard: USD 296.7 Million
Hock E. Tan, Broadcom: USD 288 Million
Safra A. Catz, Oracle: USD 239.5 Million

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