<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#222222">Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk qualified for a payout worth a whopping $2.1 billion on July 21, in large part due to his automaker's growing stock surge since May. The majority owner of the world's most valuable automaker receives no salary. A company filing showed the average compensation for Tesla employees in 2019 was roughly $58,000. </span></p>
