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The AI pay premium stopped growing. The badge premium did not.
Levels.fyi's US submissions put the L3 AI premium at 1.29x, down from 1.34x in late 2024. The outlier money now tracks employer, not skill: an OpenAI recruiter shows 3.7x market pay.
Publishers:letsdatascience.com
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives62