A group of progressive Tesla shareholders want the company’s board of directors to make CEO Elon Musk concentrate more on one of his many jobs, that of running the EV automaker. Elon Musk's $50 billion payday trial: Tesla CEO testifies in his own defense Musk is now essentially working for Tesla for free, with no cash salary, and after being granted a final block of stock options from a 2018 pay package earlier this year, there are no additional stock options that he can qualify for at the moment. Some analysts have said that they expect, and would advocate, that Tesla announce a new pay package for Musk as a way to assure Wall Street that Tesla is still his priority, despite his other CEO jobs