It’s not strictly “salaries”, but OpenAI pays technical people[1] at their “senior” level something like 900k/year in combined cash + equity compensation.
Software engineers, ML researchers, etc.
Note that since the value of the equity is constantly going up, that’s a huge underestimate.
equity
Last I checked, OpenAI offered profit-sharing rather than traditional equity: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
In practice the PPUs are basically equity for compensation purposes, though probably with worse terms than e.g. traditional RSUs.
Importantly, OpenAI is intentionally unprofitable and Profit Participation Unit holders have no voting rights to do much about that
I think that number is way too low for anyone who OpenAI actually really cares about hiring. Though this kind of thing is very very heavy tailed
Yes, this is just the number for a relatively undifferentiated (but senior) line engineer/researcher.
It’s not strictly “salaries”, but OpenAI pays technical people[1] at their “senior” level something like 900k/year in combined cash + equity compensation.
Software engineers, ML researchers, etc.
Note that since the value of the equity is constantly going up, that’s a huge underestimate.
Last I checked, OpenAI offered profit-sharing rather than traditional equity: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
In practice the PPUs are basically equity for compensation purposes, though probably with worse terms than e.g. traditional RSUs.
Importantly, OpenAI is intentionally unprofitable and Profit Participation Unit holders have no voting rights to do much about that
I think that number is way too low for anyone who OpenAI actually really cares about hiring. Though this kind of thing is very very heavy tailed
Yes, this is just the number for a relatively undifferentiated (but senior) line engineer/researcher.