Anthropic employee wages are now costing the AI giant over $100,000 per person per month

Anthropic workers are likely making a good salary, plus stock-based compensation Revenue per employee is more than 2x Meta's and 2.6x Google's The company is targeting a valuation of around $1.5 trillion Anthropic has confirmed in a recent S-1 filing that it spent $1.711 billion on personnel in its

<![CDATA[ <article> <ul><li><strong>Anthropic workers are likely making a good salary, plus stock-based compensation</strong></li><li><strong>Revenue per employee is more than 2x Meta's and 2.6x Google's</strong></li><li><strong>The company is targeting a valuation of around $1.5 trillion</strong></li></ul><p>Anthropic has confirmed in a recent <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026068676/anthropicpbc-sx1ax1.htm" target="_blank">S-1 filing</a> that it spent $1.711 billion on personnel in its most recent three-month period, down slightly on the previous quarter's $1.857 billion but up around 3.5x compared with the same quarter in 2025 ($489 million).</p><p>With around 5,300 people on the books, it means the average worker set the company back over $322,000 for the quarter, or over $107,000 per month.</p><p>While these figures are likely wild overestimates for the average worker's pay, they show just how much the AI giant is having to spend on talent compared with last year.</p><h2 id="anthropic-is-spending-billions-on-workers-39-salaries">Anthropic is spending billions on workers' salaries</h2><p>Crucially, the average worker did not receive $107,000 in a single month, because these figures also include bonuses, employee benefits, payroll taxes and stock-based compensation. An estimated $1.1 billion of the quarterly total came from stock-based compensation, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total sum.</p><p>Still, personnel costs accounted for around 15% of the company's revenue over the first nine months of 2026, which puts Anthropic in a positive position. The company spent $4.8 billion on personnel in the first three quarters.</p><p>Flip those figures around and we have a company that's making an estimated $6.6 million in revenue per employee, compared with $3.2 million at Meta and $2.5 million at Google, per <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ipo-filing-q3-personnel-costs-2026-11" target="_blank"><em>Business Insider</em></a><em> </em>calculations.</p><h2 id="recruiting-ai-talent-is-expensive">Recruiting AI talent is expensive</h2><p>Anthropic doesn't publish salary information, but given its huge expenditure relative to the number of employees, it's clear that recruiting AI talent is expensive. With stock-based compensation accounting for two-thirds of Anthropic's personnel expenditure, workers are likely being attracted by the potential of huge future wealth, rather than immediate compensation.</p><p>An upcoming IPO has Anthropic valued at somewhere around the $1.5 trillion mark, per recent <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/investors-temper-anthropic-ipo-valuation-expectations-over-revenue-growth-2026-10-15/" target="_blank"><em>Reuters</em></a> reporting. That would put it ahead of OpenAI, which is now likely targeting a $1.25 trillion valuation, per a separate <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-cuts-funding-target-by-10-billion-ft-reports-2026-10-31/" target="_blank"><em>Reuters</em></a> report.</p><figure class="van-image-figure pull-right inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check="" ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:676px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:31.51%;"><img id="diM9tpwF2Lz85R8q85CT78" name="tr-g_news" alt="Google logo on a black background next to text reading 'Click to follow TechRadar'" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/diM9tpwF2Lz85R8q85CT78-1920-80.jpg" mos="" align="right" fullscreen="" width="676" height="213" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-rightinline" /></p></div></div></figure> </article> ]]>