Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay deal is ambitious — but so was his last 'mammoth' one, tech guru says

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Spacex founder Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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20 CEOs who make a typical worker's yearly pay in less than a day

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Disney CEO Bob Iger.

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Here are the highest-paid CEOs in the US , some of whom have 9-figure compensation packages

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Tim Cook was No. 11 on a list of highest-paid execs.

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Walmart's CEO made 976 times the median employee's pay last year

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Walmart CEO and President Doug McMillon

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Why Warren Buffett only gets paid $100,000 a year — a fraction of his deputy's $20 million salary

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Warren Buffett.

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Top CEOs will make more in the first 4 days of 2024 than the average worker makes in a year, analysis shows

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The median pay of bosses at the top companies in the UK is 109 times more than the median worker pay.

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Costco's outgoing CEO made 336 times the median worker's pay — a lower ratio than Walmart and Target

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Costco's Craig Jelinek received $16.8 million in compensation for his final year as CEO.

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The CEO of Unilever won't get a pay increase for 2 years after a backlash from shareholders

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Unilever.

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Striking auto workers are highlighting their CEOs' multi-million dollar pay. Here's how much the top bosses at Ford, GM and Stellantis make

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra's 2022 compensation was worth $28.98 million. It would take a GM worker 362 years to earn that much.

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Elon Musk jabs at Lucid after its CEO raked in $379 million of total compensation last year

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Elon Musk.

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