Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’
In Brief Posted: 2:33 PM PDT · September 13, 2025 Image Credits:ROBIN LEGRAND/AFP / Getty Images Anthony Ha Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’ With Tesla shareholders set to vote on a proposed 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk in November, board chair Robyn Denholm spoke to The New York Times to defend what would be the largest pay package in corporate history. Denholm, who was also on the special committee that put the compensation proposal together, argued that Musk needs to be motivated by extraordinary challenges tied to extraordinary compensation. At the same time, she suggested he’s less interested in the additional wealth that the promised Tesla shares would represent, and more in…
