{"id":21287,"date":"2025-12-20T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/elon-musks-massive-2018-tesla-pay-package-restored-by-delaware-court\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:37:35","slug":"elon-musks-massive-2018-tesla-pay-package-restored-by-delaware-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/elon-musks-massive-2018-tesla-pay-package-restored-by-delaware-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s massive 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn and now worth some $139bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s controversial $56bn pay package from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tesla\">Tesla<\/a> was reinstated by the Delaware supreme court on Friday, two years after a lower court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/30\/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package-too-much-judge-rules\">struck down<\/a> the vast compensation deal as \u201cunfathomable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The reinstated pay package could be worth as much as $139bn today, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/19\/business\/elon-musk-pay-ruling-delaware.html\">the New York Times<\/a>. The decision comes less than two months after Tesla shareholders approved a new plan that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/06\/tesla-1tn-pay-package-elon-musk\">could be worth $1tn<\/a> to Musk, already the world\u2019s richest person, in a decade\u2019s time.<strong> <\/strong>Musk\u2019s fortune currently stands at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/15\/elon-musk-net-worth-spacex-ipo\">estimated $600bn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/19\/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/95e21f646954ddfdeee76d7bdeaf16b7a2469f5c\/220_0_2450_1960\/master\/2450.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4621bba9a3af43e2ea227a13f6545709\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s massive 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court\" \/>Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn and now worth some $139bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlash<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s controversial $56bn pay package from Tesla was reinstated by the Delaware supreme court on Friday, two years after a lower court struck down the vast compensation deal as \u201cunfathomable\u201d.<br \/>\nThe reinstated pay package could be worth as much as $139bn today, according to the New York Times. The decision comes less than two months after Tesla shareholders approved a new plan that could be worth $1tn to Musk, already the world\u2019s richest person, in a decade\u2019s time. Musk\u2019s fortune currently stands at an estimated $600bn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn and now worth some $139bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlash Elon Musk\u2019s controversial $56bn pay package from Tesla was reinstated by the Delaware supreme court on Friday, two years after a lower court struck down the vast compensation deal as \u201cunfathomable\u201d. The reinstated &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/elon-musks-massive-2018-tesla-pay-package-restored-by-delaware-court\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s massive 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}