This is one reason OpenAI hires whoever they want to hire (and why they can hire away from even Meta, Google, or any other Big Tech or AI startup, save for Ant)
Compensation is well above what investment banking has been paying in London.
OpenAI pays UK staff far above London investment banking levels
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Gergely Orosz says OpenAI's compensation is well above what investment banks have paid in London, which helps it hire from Meta, Google, and other AI startups. Peter Gostev, citing OpenAI's UK filings, reports average 2025 salary of £794k plus £1.52m in share-based compensation, a total of £2.35m (about $3.1m) per employee.
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Holy cow, so based on OpenAI's UK filings, average salary in 2025 was £794k and £1.52m share based compensation on top of that. So the total was £2.35m = $3.1m per employee
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