Money / CEOs 4 Execs Make 9 Figures Elon Musk isn't far behind By Arden Dier, Newser Staff Posted May 10, 2017 8:25 AM CDT Copied Marc Lore speaks during an interview in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) Elon Musk didn't pull in nine figures in 2016—but as the fifth top-earning executive of the year, he was awfully close. Here are the five top-earning business executives of 2016, with their total salary, according to Bloomberg: Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce US: $236,896,191 Tim Cook, CEO of Apple: $150,036,907 John S. Weinberg, executive chairman of Evercore Partners: $123,991,055 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google: $106,502,419 Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla: $99,744,920 Click for the full list or see the highest-paying companies. (More CEOs stories.) Report an error