Post #2285657
2026-04-28 16:21 UTC
@elebertus@eigenmagic.net The MEDIAN comp for a staff-level engineer is $685k. But OpenAI is top-heavy with Ph.D.-level researchers and data scientists that spark bidding wars, where signing bonuses and salary bands go out the window.
Ruoming Pang signed with Meta for $200M (not a typo) last July, and left for OpenAI 7 months later (package not disclosed). It's that tier where the money is beyond comprehension.
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@elebertus@eigenmagic.net 2026-04-28 16:26
@mattmay@mstdn.social I mean I even have seen SRE / infra positions at both anthropic and openai for 500k+ usd, which is insane. Even more insane than Netflix salary. That’s wild. Truly wild.