Elon Musk is the CEO of the electric car company Tesla (TSLA) and space tourism company SpaceX. He is also notorious for his Tweets, pimping cryptocurrencies, fathering a human baby named X Æ A-Xii, and hosting Saturday Night Live. But there is one thing he is even more known for.
Elon Musk is wealthy. His wealth exploded over 600% during the COVID pandemic. According to Forbes, his net worth in 2020 was $24.6 billion. That was good enough to be placed number 31 on Forbes’s list of billionaires. In 2021 Bloomberg called the SpaceX CEO the richest person on earth with a personal wealth of $266 Billion. Outpacing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos by $66 Billion.
Elon Musk wealth calculator
To understand how much money that is, click on the UK-based automobile leasing company Select Car Leasing web page. They have built an Elon Musk wealth calculator. As soon as you open the webpage, the number on Musk’s earnings ticker begins climbing. You can see how much money he makes in the time you spend on the page.
Even more depressing is the page can calculate exactly how long it takes for Musk to earn what you do in a year. Scroll to the bottom of the page and enter your annual salary. It takes Musk less than 3 minutes to make the average American household income of $67,521. Like Mental Floss says, there’s a good chance the answer will prompt an emotion, be it inspiration or infuriation.
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Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.
