17. Salary
Musk is worth a reported $22 billion , but the official salary he currently receives from Tesla is far more modest: The CEO earns just around $37,000 per year .
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(Musk is also the CEO of SpaceX, which is privately held.) If Musk had things his way, he says, he’d choose not to take a salary at all.
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