aceOpenAI’s London staff receive average of £2.3m per person annually
OpenAI’s London staff each received £2,318,181 on average last year, as the ChatGPT-maker poured Premier League football salaries into its bid to dominate the global AI race. Accounts for OpenAI UK Ltd, which is based in Westminster but is opening a new HQ in London’s King’s Cross area, showed that 110 staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares in the company, which is aiming to list on the stock market at a valuation of about $1tn. The earnings amount to 58 times the median UK full-time employee earnings…
Employees at OpenAI's London unit received very large pay and share packages in 2025, roughly doubling the previous year's average, alongside a more than threefold rise in UK turnover and a £20.3m profit.
The article says there is understood to be a wide discrepancy between the highest and lowest earners, so the average does not describe what typical staff receive.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-14
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