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Anthropic boss Dario Amodei made $18 million last year – placing among the tech world’s highest-paid executives ahead of the Claude chatbot maker’s planned IPO later this year.
The curly-headed CEO’s payday for 2025 was revealed in Anthropic’s S-1 prospectus, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. The AI giant is expected to fetch a valuation of more than $2 trillion when it goes public, with Anthropic reportedly eyeing a Wall Street debut before Thanksgiving.
Amodei’s $18 million placed him ahead of major tech figures like Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who raked in $10.9 million in 2025, and Amazon’s Andy Jassy, who earned $2.1 million, according to disclosures.
The AI executive trailed behind rivals like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, who earned $35.5 million, and Oracle co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk, who took in a whopping $627.5 million.
Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei, both Anthropic cofounders, each earned $1.4 million in annual salary after it was doubled last July. Daniela Amodei earned a total of $16.4 million in 2025.
The rest of their compensation came in the form of stock and options awards, according to Reuters. Both siblings are set to earn additional equity in the near future, to be received as long as they remain at Anthropic and the company goes public as planned.
Elsewhere, Anthropic’s chief financial officer Krishna Rao earned $720,250 last year. He received options to buy 1.4 million shares of Anthropic stock in 2024 and exercised options worth $385,285 last year.
Dario Amodei’s $18 million in compensation “seems on the lower end for a company valued at $2 trillion,” Courtney Yu, director of research for pay data firm Equilar, told Reuters.
“It will be interesting to see how that changes once the company goes public,” Yu added.
Anthropic has a total of seven cofounder including Amodei. That could mean his on-paper wealth will appear smaller than expected after Anthropic’s IPO, according to Yu, though it will still reach into the billions.
Both Amodei siblings and their cofounders have said they will commit 80% of their personal Anthropic equity to support charitable causes. The company’s S-1 prospectus did not detail how many shares they currently own or the value of those shares.
Dario Amodei addressed his views toward charitable donations in a January essay titled “The Adolescence of Technology.”
“It is sad to me that many wealthy individuals (especially in the tech industry) have recently adopted a cynical and nihilistic attitude that philanthropy is inevitably fraudulent or useless,” he wrote.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, currently ranks as the world’s richest individual with a personal net worth of $1.04 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His wealth exploded after SpaceX’s IPO in June.
Overall, annual compensation for S&P 500 CEOs jumped 21% to $22.8 million last year.
With Post wires
