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Anthropic Spends 2.3x More on AI Compute Than Engineer Pay
Anthropic now spends 2.3 times its payroll on AI compute, equating to $515,000 per engineer each year against a fully-loaded salary of $224,000. In contrast, the top 1% of software companies spend $89,000 per engineer and the median spends only $137. Three scenarios for 2029 explore how this gap may close, driven by token deflation, agentic workloads, and open-weight model competition.
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