AI Paygrades - Salary Transparency for AI Labs

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A salary transparency tool relevant to understanding talent economics at AI labs; useful context for discussions about whether safety-focused organizations can competitively recruit researchers and the financial incentives shaping AI development careers.

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Summary

AI Paygrades is a crowdsourced salary transparency platform aggregating compensation data for roles at major AI laboratories and tech companies. It provides salary benchmarks for researchers, engineers, and other staff at frontier AI labs, helping workers understand market rates and negotiate compensation. The site contributes to transparency around the economics of AI talent.

Key Points

•Crowdsourced compensation database covering roles at frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Google
•Helps AI safety researchers and engineers understand competitive salary ranges when considering employment at safety-focused organizations
•Contributes to labor market transparency in the AI industry, potentially affecting talent distribution between safety and capabilities organizations
•Useful reference for understanding the financial incentives and compensation structures that influence researcher career decisions
•Relevant context for discussions about whether safety labs can attract top talent relative to more commercially-focused competitors

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## Statistics of industry job offers in **Artificial Intelligence (AI)**

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We currently have data from 170 manually verified offers. All figures are in USD.

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Median overall

$326,613/ year

Base salary

$160,000/ year

Equity grant

$103,750/ year

Target bonus

$20,250/ year

Signing bonus

$21,250/ year

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| Company<br> Location | Level | Position | Overall annual <br> compensation | Base | Equity | Target<br>bonus | Signing<br>bonus | Other\* |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Facebook<br>Menlo Park, USA | E6 | Research Scientist | $1,175,000 | $250k | $750k | $50k | $125k | $0k |
| Google<br>Mountain View, USA | L6 | Research Scientist | $1,057,750 | $200k | $793k | $40k | $25k | $0k |
| Facebook<br>Menlo Park, USA | E6 | Research Scientist | $1,045,000 | $225k | $750k | $45k | $25k | $0k |
| Google<br>Mountain View, USA | L6 | Research Scientist | $995,000 | $250k | $670k | $50k | $25k | $0k |
| Google<br>Mountain View, USA | L6 | Research Scientist | $786,000 | $230k | $485k | $46k | $25k | $0k |
| Google<br>Hartford, USA | L5 | Research Scientist | $692,500 | $200k | $438k | $30k | $25k | $0k |
| Amazon<br>Bay Area, USA | L6 | Applied Scientist | $648,525 | $231k | $257k | $0k | $92k | $69k |
| Google<br>Mountain View, USA | L6 | Staff Software Engineer | $632,250 | $230k | $331k | $46k | $25k | $0k |
| Cruise<br>San Francisco, USA | L5 | Research Scientist | $605,750 | $240k | $275k | $72k | $19k | $0k |
| Facebook<br>Seattle, USA | E4 | Research S

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