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Frontier lab hiring and pay bands — Clarity Today

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Frontier lab hiring and pay bands

Compensation structures at OpenAI, xAI and comparable labs, including non-technical roles and internal frontier units at large incumbents.

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build1 distinct publisher

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

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Evidence57
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives62

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