{
  "id": 839202,
  "title": "Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/tesla-paid-elon-musk-2-5m-times-more-as-ceo-than-its-average-worker",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-13T16:31:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/13/elon-musk-tesla-pay-workers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies Elon Musk received over 2.5m times as much compensation at Tesla as the company’s average worker, according to a new report on the growing gap between top corporate executives and their workers. Musk’s $158.3bn pay deal was an outlier but came as the gap between CEO and worker pay…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "Here are the biggest companies that have followed Elon Musk out of Delaware",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/here-are-the-biggest-companies-that-have-followed-elon-musk-out-of",
        "published": "2026-08-12T18:08:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}