Outlook Business Desk
Indian-origin executive Vaibhav Taneja surpasses Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella with $139 million in 2024 earnings, highlighting Tesla’s unique compensation structure.
The majority of Taneja’s earnings stem from stock options and equity awards, reflecting Tesla’s performance-based pay model.
Despite the massive total compensation, Taneja’s base salary was $400,000, emphasizing the weight of equity in his pay as reported by Economic Times.
Taneja’s compensation in 2024 is higher than Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s total compensation of $10.73 million and Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s $79.1 million.
Taneja has held key finance roles at Tesla, serving as Chief Accounting Officer since March 2019, Corporate Controller from May 2018, and Assistant Corporate Controller from February 2017 to May 2018.
Vaibhav Taneja started his carrer in India with a degree of Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University in 1999. He also earned his CA qualification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 2000, and later became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the US in 2006.
Indian-origin executive Vaibhav Taneja net worth stands at $139 million in 2025.