Apparently Meta is so ashamed of their AI efforts to date that they are offering $100 million signing bonuses plus ‘even higher renumeration’ in an effort to steal employees from OpenAI.
That feels absolutely mind blowing if one thinks about what $100 million actually means. Like legacy level wealth.
It would immediately make you a centi-millionaire, of which there are around 28 thousand in the world.
Although I suppose the people likely to be able to take up this offer are already probably rather well-remunerated. The FT shares what the normal comp for these jobs might be:
Salaries for a software engineer at OpenAI range from around $238,000 to $1.34mn, according to financial package tracking website Levels, while Meta’s salaries varied from $212,000 to around $3.7mn
Reuters has however in the past shared higher figures for the leading researchers in the field.
Top OpenAI researchers regularly receive compensation packages of over $10 million a year, sources said.
Admittedly the source for the $100 million claim this is Sam Altman who is not exactly known for his veracity.