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Recently, it was revealed that OpenAI took the lead with a starting salary of 5 million, according to a salary scale for a large American technology company. Startups pay more than all the big technology companies.

How much do AI engineers in top companies earn? Recently, this chart of compensation (including stock options) for large American technology companies has been released, and the sky-high annual salary of head engineers has shocked many netizens.

The form comes from many netizens in Rora Research who questioned the figures in the table, saying that it should be the top AI scientists, not ordinary AI engineers, who can get this number.

In addition, although the people at the top of the pyramid are beautiful, according to the Law of February 8, there are many programmers at the bottom of the tower who actually earn very low hourly wages.

OpenAI ranks first in artificial intelligence in salary, making it the hottest industry in 2023. If you can work in the world's top AI companies such as OpenAI and DeepMind, it is undoubtedly a dream come true for many researchers.

So, what is the annual salary of these head technology companies?

Rora, a company that specializes in helping doctoral degree holders negotiate compensation, released a report on salary negotiations, which revealed the average salary of researchers at TOP Technologies in the United States.

It can be seen that the data listed in the table are very eye-catching, and the company with the highest remuneration package is the same OpenAI.

Here is a detailed description of the salaries of some of the top AI researchers:

OpenAI can see from the chart that OpenAI offers employees an annual salary of up to $865000, with a base salary of $665000 and a salary increase of up to 30 per cent.

Anthropic, OpenAI's strongest competitor, came in second with a salary of $855000 for the researchers.

AnthropicAnthropic, co-founded by OpenAI's "defector" Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, is the developer of Claude-2.

Interestingly, during the recent OpenAI palace struggle, board members approached Dario to become the CEO of the merged company, but they refused.

InflectionInflection also pays well, with engineers earning an average of $825000 a year.

Inflection developed the personalized chat robot Pi, which was founded by former DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and well-known investor Reid Hoffman, and the company has been valued at $4 billion.

Although Inflection already belongs to the multimillion-dollar club, the research team has only 35 people.

Tesla and Tesla offered an average annual salary of $780000, with a base salary of $702000, an increase of 11% in the negotiations.

Musk's Tesla is famous for his self-driving cars, and Tesla's supercalculation is likely to provide important support for xAI, the driver behind Grok.

What's remarkable about Amazon is that startups pay more than any big tech company.

Of all the big technology companies, Amazon offers the highest annual salary of $719000. The salary negotiations increased by as much as 38 per cent, which means a base salary of about $520000.

The salaries offered by two research institutions owned by Google's parent company Alphabet are very different.

Google Brain had previously offered an annual salary of $695000 and a base salary of $590000, a negotiated increase of 17 per cent. However, it has been merged with DeepMind.

Google Research, on the other hand, offered an annual salary of $549000, a 77% increase in negotiations, a significant increase over the base salary of $310000.

Meta AIMeta AI Labs (FAIR) offers an annual salary of $556000 and a base salary of $480000, with a 15 per cent increase in salary negotiations.

DeepMind, which DeepMind has merged with Google Brain, is Google's response to the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI.

As the driving force behind the Gemini model of the recent fire, DeepMind paid the researchers an annual salary of $515000 and a base salary of $452000, with a 13% increase in negotiations.

When Apple comes to Apple, researchers are paid roughly half as much as OpenAI-a base salary of $337000, an annual salary of up to $450000 and a negotiated increase of 33 per cent.

Microsoft is similar to Apple in that Microsoft's own research lab, Microsoft Research, pays only half as much as OpenAI.

Although it can offer an annual salary of up to $449000 and a 66 per cent negotiated increase, the base salary is significantly lower than that of the previous giants-just $270000.

This may be why OpenAI researchers are in no hurry to switch to Microsoft in the whole mess.

Nvidia, the biggest winner of the AI competition, offered researchers an annual salary of $390000 and a base salary of $340000, with a 14% increase in negotiations.

IBMIBM Research has related layouts in the field of quantum computing and AI.

It pays researchers an annual salary of $377000, including a 43 per cent increase in negotiations and a base salary of $262000.

Hugging Face's Hugging Face, which is committed to open source, is at the bottom of the list, but its salary for researchers is actually not low--

Annual salaries can be as high as $238000, including a base salary of $185000 and a negotiated increase of 27%.

To sum up, although the technology industry has suffered massive layoffs of hundreds of thousands of people in the past 23 years, the demand for AI talents is still rising.

The following industries are also actively looking for AI talent-emerging industry research laboratories such as Anthropic, Inflection and Altos Labs are constantly raising hundreds of millions of dollars to recruit people.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, venture capital-backed AI startups have accelerated hiring.

This trend is expected to continue because venture capitalists have a lot of capital and are likely to invest heavily even if the economy is bad.

The New York Times reported that because of the surge in investor interest in AI, AI startups were valued at more than any bubble in 2021. Investors are looking everywhere for AI experts from Google, Meta, OpenAI and other companies with entrepreneurial dreams.

-in addition, although traditional laboratories such as Google and Meta are slower than they were five years ago, these institutions are still expanding.

Outside the technology industry, the financial, medical and scientific fields are also looking for machine learning researchers, hoping to apply this new technology to their respective fields.

Anyway, blessed are the doctors of AI! In today's market, AI talents are already in short supply.

According to Taulbee, only 1691 people received doctorates in computing research in 2021.

But in the United States alone, 33500 computer and information research scientists are needed, and that demand is growing at a rate of 21 percent every year.

This means that there are about 5000 research scientist positions waiting to be filled each year.

Executives and HR showed up: this number exaggerated and immediately aroused heated discussion among netizens after the picture was released online.

Some people say that this salary scale looks eye-catching, but it is not representative, only about a few thousand people.

They have doctorates from top CS projects, hold top papers, and have made significant contributions to open source projects. It is impossible for the average ML / AI engineer to get this number.

Indeed, some people question that the figures in the table do not match the positions of faang employees, most of whom do not have doctorates.

Amazon's L7 SDE (non-PhD) is paid 200k-270k Base,505k-746k TC;L7 Applied Scientist (PhD) is 198k-269k Base,663k-1032k TC.

But that's what happened in Seattle, where the Bay area will be 10% higher.

Netizens who used to be executives and technical recruiters of Top 3 in the table also said in person that the data were not accurate.

Some netizens said that their friends are in Google, California. The entire package costs more than 300,000 US dollars, and the tax paid is less than 200000. Various taxes in California lead to high rents and prices, which is the true situation of big American companies.

Some say the pay scale refers to AI researchers with CS postgraduate degrees, not AI engineers.

Indeed, someone has found evidence in the Resources that this salary scale is for AI researchers rather than engineers, usually in the fourth or fifth year of the PhD, or the last year after the blog.

Some netizens said that the salary they queried on Google was much lower than that in the table, and the figures in the table should include stock options.

A witty netizen guessed that it was a marketing advertisement released by an AI novice training course that only showed rookies the highest salary to cheat people into buying lessons.

To break the illusion of high pay, many programmers earn very low hourly wages, but although they appear to be prosperous, many programmers at the bottom of the pyramid are not paid much, and they can be said to be very low in terms of hourly pay.

Recently, a hot post on X broke many people's illusion of "high salary for programmers".

Some people say that it is the information technology dividend of the past 20 years that has made programmers catch up with the good times. But the average intelligence of programmers is not statistically different from that of other industries.

Also a member of the worker, the value of the programmer corresponds to the value of code + comprehensive ability to solve problems.

According to the latest statistics from ZipRecruiter, a US website recruitment platform, as of December 5, the average hourly salary of American programmers is about $40. In the case of ZipRecruiter itself, employees earn as much as $69 an hour and $12 an hour.

But most programmers in the United States currently earn between $26 and $51. It can be seen that the average salary range of programmers varies widely. Skill level, city and experience are all influencing factors.

Most of the American cities earning TOP 10 an hour are in California, followed by San Mateo, California, followed by Richmond and Bellevue.

In terms of specific jobs, Web developers earn as little as $28 an hour, while App developers earn as much as $60 an hour.

Some netizens also posted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that the minimum 10% of computer engineering wages are less than $77k. Given that entry-level computer engineers are at the lowest end of the chain, the national average is about 70k-90k dollars.

The median of Silicon Valley is about $100000. If you can get a salary of $950000 in the Midwest, you are already one of the best.

Reference:

Https://www.teamrora.com/post/ai-researchers-salary-negotiation-report-2023

Https://analyticsindiamag.com/top-13-highest-paying-ai-companies-for-researchers/

Https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/18go2ka/this_is_how_much_ai_engineers_earn_in_top/

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