Desk·2026-10-29
Anthropic listing path prints under OpenAI by $62k
Same software-engineer title. OpenAI prints the default lab year. Anthropic prints the listing-path paper under it by about $62k. Bases sit twenty thousand apart.
OpenAI typical $653,000 against $591,000 at Anthropic.
SWE typical
OpenAI typical sits ~1.10× Anthropic
Same title. Default lab clears $653k typical on a $270k base. Listing-path clears $591k on a $250k base.
How to plan it
Sit the default lab year or the listing-path seat
A 26-year-old planning 2027 should treat OpenAI and Anthropic as two next seats, not one frontier band. OpenAI software engineer prints $653k typical on the ledger with a $270k base, sample twenty-three, eleven work-email, marked hot. Anthropic prints $591k typical with a $250k base, sample eighteen, ten work-email, also hot. The default lab leads typical by about $62k. The listing-path leads verified density. Anthropic filed its S-1 on 26 October for Nasdaq under ANT, with first-half revenue of $16.3 billion and an $80.7 billion net loss driven mostly by note revaluations. That filing does not reprice the seats. If you can hold paper and want the larger product loop, sit OpenAI first. If you want the safety-focused book that is further along the public path, sit Anthropic — but name the mix. Do not treat a $653k default year and a $591k listing-path year as the same next seat.
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