Desk·2026-11-01
Cursor agent paper clears Jane Street cash by $325k
Same software-engineer title. Cursor prints the agent product year. Jane Street prints the pure NY shop cash under it by about $325k. Bases sit ten thousand apart.
Cursor typical $850,000 against $525,000 at Jane Street.
SWE typical
Cursor typical sits ~1.62× Jane Street
Same title. Agent product clears $850k typical on a $260k base. NY shop clears $525k on a $250k base.
How to plan it
Sit the NY shop cash year or the agent product paper
A 26-year-old planning 2027 should treat Jane Street and Cursor as two next seats, not one high IC band. Jane Street software engineer prints $525k typical on the ledger with a $250k base, sample fourteen, six work-email, marked hot in New York. Cursor prints $850k typical with a $260k base, sample fourteen, seven work-email. The agent product leads typical by about $325k. The shop leads cash density: the year is almost all cash, top at $900k against Cursor’s $1.66M. Cursor still prints as the default AI IDE at $500M+ ARR. That mark does not reprice the seats. If you need the 2027 cash year and can clear the NY shop loop, sit Jane Street first. If you can hold paper and want the agent product loop, sit Cursor — but name the mix. Do not treat a $525k cash year and an $850k paper year as the same next seat.
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