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How long it takes Elon Musk to make the average US annual salary revealed – and the results are mind-blowing

WE ALL know that Elon Musk is really, really rich – but just how long does it take the world’s richest man to make the average US salary?

The 50-year-old billionaire is CEO of both aeronautical company SpaceX and energy vehicle manufacturer Tesla.

It takes billionaire Elon Musk mere seconds to make the average US annual salaryAFP or licensors

Most of Musk’s fortune can be attributed to investments and being the largest individual shareholder in both of his companies.

In 2021, Musk, who is currently the richest person in the world, earned a cool $331.5 million per day.

That equates to $221,000 per minute or $3700 per second.

In response to the mind-blowing statistics, the marketing website InternetMarktingHub.com developed a feature to help the average American find out how their salary compares to Musk’s.

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All a person has to do is enter their annual salary into the designated field and then hit “Play.”

Another insightful feature on the site is a section that tells how much money Musk has made in the seconds since you entered your salary.

The tool utilizes data from Forbes and Americans For Tax Fairness (ATF), company spokesperson Carla Maconra said.

According to the clever feature, it takes Musk about 18 seconds to earn the median US household income of $69,392.


“I was very surprised when testing the tool to find out that it would take Elon Musk just 18 seconds to earn my annual salary,” Maconra noted.

Users can also see how their salaries compare to other multibillionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg.

According to the site, it takes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos 7 minutes and 17 seconds to earn the average US yearly income.

Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, earned the same amount in 23 seconds.

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Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates earns $69,392 in just 3 minutes and 22 seconds.

The site noted that the earnings for each billionaire were collected from third-party sources, and may differ slightly from their actual earnings.