[recipe19]

These aren't annual pay packages. It's some "can't retire on that" base salary plus a promise of gradually vesting equity on a multi-year schedule. For public companies, you'll get that amount if you hang around for x years and there is no sudden decline in market price. For non-public companies (OpenAI), the equity is more pie-in-the-sky.

[xandrius]

I'd expect a few millions of annual pay, anyone could retire on that. Whether someone wants to, it's different but having anything beyond $1M available is definitely sufficient, especially if you're sub-40.

[yunohn]

Most sources confirmed that yearly effective pay would be 100M level, unlike the normal tech breakdown.

OpenAI doesn’t do the usual equity for employees, they famously do profit sharing.