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$260k3.04×
02OpenAIFrontier AI$653k$270k2.33×
03AnthropicFrontier AI$591k$250k2.11×
04Jane StreetQuant / trading$525k$250k1.88×
05DecagonAI / support$510k$300k1.82×
06Physical IntelligenceEmbodied AI$480k$220k1.71×
07Hudson River TradingQuant / HFT$480k$220k1.71×
08Jump TradingQuant / HFT$460k$215k1.64×
09FigureHumanoid robotics$450k$200k1.61×
10RenaissanceQuant / systematic$450k$210k1.61×
11CitadelQuant / multi-strat$425k$200k1.52×
12xAIFrontier AI$420k$200k1.50×
13Thinking MachinesAI / labs$420k$230k1.50×
14SierraAI / agents$413k$250k1.48×
15NetflixConsumer / streaming$400k$326k1.43×
16PinterestConsumer / social$390k$185k1.39×

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