Desk·2026-11-03
Anthropic lab paper clears Jane Street cash by $66k
Same software-engineer title. Anthropic prints the listing-path year. Jane Street prints the pure NY shop cash under it by about $66k. Bases sit the same.
Anthropic typical $591,000 against $525,000 at Jane Street.
SWE typical
Anthropic typical sits ~1.13× Jane Street
Same title. Listing-path clears $591k typical on a $250k base. NY shop clears $525k on a $250k base.
How to plan it
Sit the NY shop cash year or the listing-path lab seat
A 26-year-old planning 2027 should treat Jane Street and Anthropic as two next IC seats, not one high 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. Anthropic prints $591k typical with a $250k base, sample eighteen, ten work-email, also hot. The listing-path leads typical by about $66k. The shop leads cash density: the year is almost all cash, top at $900k against Anthropic’s $1.25M. Anthropic filed an amended S-1 on 2 November adding Q3 revenue of about $17 billion and $895 billion in compute commitments. That filing 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 safety-focused book further along the public path, sit Anthropic — but name the mix. Do not treat a $525k cash year and a $591k paper year as the same next seat.
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