Elon Musk, with an estimated net worth of $182 billion according to Forbes (as of May 2023), has a substantial income calculated based on his equity stakes in his companies. If we break this down, Musk's daily income, assuming 365 days in a year, comes out to be approximately $499 million.
When you break down his earnings further, you will find that Elon Musk earns around $1,847,000 per hour. This is more than most people make in their lifetime. Taking $50,000 as the average income in the US, most people earn about $1.7 million in their lifetime.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who might soon become the owner of Twitter, earned a compensation of $23.5 billion (Rs 18,22,03,72,50,000) in 2021. According to the report, that was by far the largest annual paycheck any CEO has ever received.
The figures for his worth are even more staggering when broken down into various other increments. Specifically, Musk makes approximately $22,500 in a single minute or $375 in a single second.
However, if you calculate Mr Bezos' increase in net worth – thought to have gone up by $75bn in 2020 according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index – you get a very different set of figures. This works out as $6.25bn per month, $1.44bn per week, $205m per day, $8.56m per hour, and $142,667 per minute.
Now, he makes an effort to sleep at least six hours per night, he said in an interview with CNBC's David Faber on Tuesday. “I've tried [to sleep] less, but ... even though I'm awake more hours, I get less done,” Musk said. “And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours [of sleep per night].”
Musk still has the potential to continue pulling in staggering sums of money, thanks to Tesla, but not in the way that his regular workers make their money. That's because the CEO hasn't taken any kind of cash salary since 2019, when he only received $23,760, which was required under California minimum wage law.
Meta in its 2022 proxy statement said that Zuckerberg's base salary remained at $1, the same as in 2021 and 2020. And in 2022 too he did not receive any bonus or stock awards.
“My workload went up from about 70 to 80 hours a week to probably 120,” Musk said during an onstage interview with Ron Baron, a billionaire mutual fund investor whose firm, Baron Capital Group, hosted the conference. Baron Capital Group is a shareholder of Musk's Tesla.
"I grew up in a lower, transitioning to an upper, middle-income situation, but did not have a happy childhood. Haven't inherited anything ever from anyone, nor has anyone given me a large financial gift". Musk said his father, Errol Musk, never supported him financially after high school in "any meaningful way".
He's founded and co-founded a few other companies since then (like Neuralink and The Boring Company) which also contribute to his net worth, but that's a breakdown of how Elon got his start. It's crazy that he went from basically $0 in 1995 when he started Zip2, to $180 million in just 7 years!
Musk is the wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth, as of July 2023, of around US$239 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and $248.8 billion according to Forbes's Real Time Billionaires list, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
The highest paying jobs at Tesla are senior software engineer, global supply manager, information technology project manager, and modeler.
The highest paying job on the list is Tesla's Senior Manager, Software Engineering ($235,000 per year) followed by Manager, Software Engineering ($209,405). The lowest-paying entry-level job recorded was for an Associate Design Planner with a salary of $80,000.
Sounds downright crazy right? That is because in this case the level of poverty has been deciphered on account of the amount of debt he has, and it's huge. The mantle of the poorest man on earth has been given to French citizen Jerome Kerviel. One of the biggest banks in Europe, Société Générale, once employed Kerviel.
Elon's IQ is estimated to be around 155, while Albert Einstein's is 160. With such a slight margin, Musk is undoubtedly an incredibly smart person. Who is the smartest person on earth in 2022? Born in 1975 in Adelaide, Australia is a mathematician, Terence Tao with an IQ score of 230.
In a post on the newly launched Threads app, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that he's mastered what we all dream of—getting about seven to eight hours of sleep per night. “Really dialed in my sleep with Eight Sleep and Oura,” he wrote, referring to a smart mattress and smart ring meant to help us catch our Zzzs.
"I'd rather eat tasty food and live a shorter life," Musk said in 2020 on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. Aside from the daily donut, Musk is known to enjoy sushi, steak, chocolate, coffee and caffeine-free Diet Coke. He is not a big fan of vegetables, opting instead for a diet centered around meat and potatoes.