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Investors in the electric car maker gathered this Thursday to vote on a massive pay deal for the company's leader estimated at around $1 trillion. Should it pass, this package would demonstrate market faith that the entrepreneur can steer the vehicle manufacturer into an age dominated by machine learning and robotics. If denied, Tesla could potentially face the departure of a visionary leader who previously established the corporation synonymous with zero-emission cars.

Record-Breaking Goals and Market Capitalization

Should Musk achieve the ambitious milestones detailed in the compensation plan introduced at Tesla's shareholder gathering, he could emerge as the world's first trillionaire. For this to happen, he must steer Tesla to a astronomical $8.5 trillion in market capitalization, which is 800% of its existing market cap. Moreover, he will be obligated to launch millions driverless automobiles and bipedal machines, while maintaining the company's bottom line in the hundreds of billions over the next decade.

Reward System

The key aims of the remuneration structure, organized into 12 tranches, delineate a trajectory for Tesla to reach its massive worth. Should targets be met, Musk would be eligible to realize gains on an additional 12% of the firm's equity. For this to occur, he must stay committed with the company for a minimum of 7.5 years. Additionally, he must assist in creating a corporate transition roadmap for the business he has led for in excess of 20 years. The stock options awarded by the latest pay package, in addition to shares promised in his earlier deal, would leave Musk with 25% ownership of Tesla's shares. By the start of November, Tesla stock was trading close to its 52-week high, at around $450 each share.

Formidable Objectives

During a ten-year period, Musk will be tasked to deliver 20 million zero-emission cars to customers, distribute 10 million live FSD memberships, develop and sell 1 million bipedal machines, and launch 1 million self-driving cabs in revenue-generating use.

Musk will also be tasked to increase the company to $400 billion in actual earnings for four straight quarters. Tesla's real profits for the Q3 2025 were $4.2 billion, 9 percent lower from the year before.

As of November, Musk's fortune was estimated at $460 billion, the top in the world, based on market tracking.

Reinstating a Revoked Plan

Investors are furthermore reviewing a proposal that would reward Musk after his earlier remuneration deal was overturned by a judicial body in Delaware. The remuneration deal, worth an estimated $56 billion, was challenged by a single stockholder who won his case. The Delaware court of chancery dismissed Musk's remuneration deal on two occasions. Upon stockholder approval the proposal in the shareholder meeting, Musk is set to be paid the huge sum regardless of if Tesla and Musk overturn the ruling of the lawsuit.

After Musk's previous compensation plan was first rescinded, he moved Tesla's legal headquarters from Delaware to Texas. He repeated the action with his aerospace company and other business entities. In the previous year, under Texas law, shareholders for a second time passed the pay package.

But Delaware's known as "judicial body" for a second time denied one of the biggest CEO compensation packages in recent times. After that unfavorable ruling, Musk posted on his accounts to express dissatisfaction with the jurisdiction and its "activist chief judge", possibly igniting a number of company relocations that Delaware legislators have tried to stop with new laws.

In reviewing whether Musk had excessive control in being given that earlier remuneration deal, a prominent legal scholar remarked that the court noted that other "celebrity leaders" like Facebook's founder and the Amazon founder were not awarded this sort of performance-linked deals.