Could 20, 2025 07:41 PM IST
Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja obtained a outstanding $139 million wage in 2024, outpacing prime executives like Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai.
Indian-origin enterprise government Vaibhav Taneja, who took over as Tesla Chief Monetary Officer (CFO) in 2023, was paid a staggering $139 million as yearly wage in 2024, in response to a report by The Telegraph.
Vaibhav Taneja has considerably elevated his earnings since turning into Tesla’s CFO in 2023,(LinkedIn/VaibhavTaneja)
Due to inventory choices and fairness awards after his promotion, Taneja’s base wage of $400,000 was compounded, even surpassing the salaries of Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai.
In response to a US SEC submitting, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Nadella obtained a $79.106 million paycheck in 2024 whereas Pichai took residence $10.73 million, as per Alphabet’s 2025 Proxy Assertion.
The Telegraph reported that his bumper pay for final 12 months is regarded as the very best pay for a finance chief in a long time.
Taneja’s excessive wage raised eyebrows, as EV maker Tesla has witnessed a stoop in gross sales after backlash towards CEO Elon Musk, whose actions whereas working the Trump administration’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) have come below hearth.
Taneja’s rising pay comes whilst Musk continues to obtain no wage from the carmaker, which marked the largest annual decline in gross sales since 2012.
Who’s Vaibhav Taneja?
With a Bachelor’s of Commerce diploma from Delhi College, Vaibhav Taneja is a Chartered Accountant by coaching. He labored at PricewaterhouseCoopers in India and the US between July 1999 and March 2016.
From March 2016, Taneja served in numerous finance and accounting roles at SolarCity Company – a US-based photo voltaic panel developer acquired by Tesla in 2016.
He joined Tesla in 2017 as a Company Controller and shortly turned the Chief Accounting Officer. He served in that function from March 2019 to 2023, when he was made the Chief Monetary Officer.
He has held the place for over two years and is spearheading Tesla’s entry into the Indian market. In January 2021, he was appointed because the director for Tesla’s Indian arm, Tesla India Motors and Power Personal Restricted.
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