It was revealed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s annual salary is barely $76,001 (about 106.4 million won). Nevertheless, he’s a wealthy man with known assets of $2.8 billion (roughly 3.86 trillion won).
On the twenty first, Bloomberg confirmed OpenAI’s report back to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and reported that CEO Altman received a salary of $76,001 last 12 months.
It is a 3.3% increase from $73,546 (roughly 103.02 million won) in 2022. Amongst the most important personnel’s salaries revealed together, Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who left the corporate last May, had the very best salary at $322,201 (about 451 million won).
Nevertheless, this salary didn’t include stock-based compensation. In truth, OpenAI took steps to permit employees to get rid of their shares early this 12 months. That is as a result of the corporate establishing a salary and stock package to recruit talent from other firms.
In truth, in accordance with salary information site Levels.phi, the common annual salary of Open AI employees is understood to be $534,197 (about 750 million won).
After all, CEO Altman doesn’t own any treasury stock. The salary is merely a formality. That is in contrast to big tech CEOs receiving salaries within the tens of billions of won.
Based on a report within the Wall Street Journal last June, CEO Altman invested in greater than 400 firms, bringing his assets to $2.8 billion. In April, he also entered the Forbes Wealthy List, which lists individuals with assets of greater than $1 billion.
As well as, as Open AI is converted right into a industrial company, the Open AI board of directors is considering granting him a specific amount of shares. Currently, Open AI’s corporate value reaches $157 billion (roughly 220 trillion won).
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
