Ranks

Which companies pay a software engineer the most?

Ranked by Typical total comp vs the field.

One SWE seat per company. Typical is the tick, not the tweet.

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#CompanyTypicalBasevs field
01CursorAI coding$850k$260k2.98×
02OpenAIFrontier AI$653k$270k2.29×
03AnthropicFrontier AI$591k$250k2.07×
04Jane StreetQuant / trading$525k$250k1.84×
05Physical IntelligenceEmbodied AI$480k$220k1.68×
06Hudson River TradingQuant / HFT$480k$220k1.68×
07Jump TradingQuant / HFT$460k$215k1.61×
08FigureHumanoid robotics$450k$200k1.58×
09RenaissanceQuant / systematic$450k$210k1.58×
10CitadelQuant / multi-strat$425k$200k1.49×
11xAIFrontier AI$420k$200k1.47×
12Thinking MachinesAI / labs$420k$230k1.47×
13NetflixConsumer / streaming$400k$326k1.40×
14PinterestConsumer / social$390k$185k1.37×
15CoinbaseCrypto / exchange$388k$205k1.36×
16SnapConsumer / social$388k$190k1.36×

Public composites and work-email ticks. Not a bought ranking. Method.