What we know about rumor Musk makes $8M per day from US government contracts

In February 2025, claims circulated on Facebook (archived) and X (archived) that billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who was hired by the Trump administration to root out government waste and fraud, was himself making $8 million per day from federal contracts.
(X user @stevectx1964)
Snopes readers also messaged us asking about a variant of this claim, saying they heard Musk was making $8 million a day for his job running the Department of Government Efficiency.
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