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A SpaceX Software Engineer II offer from August 2022 included a $155,000 salary and a $365,000 equity grant that vested over five years. At SpaceX’s IPO valuation, that grant is estimated to be worth more than $4 million, assuming it was held.<\/p>\n

At Anthropic, engineers who joined in 2023 may now be sitting on equity worth tens of millions of dollars after the AI company’s valuation surge. <\/p>\n

OpenAI shows a similar pattern, with some 2022 and 2023 equity grants to engineers now valued at over $50 million.<\/p>\n

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These are not guaranteed windfalls: variables such as vesting, dilution, and lockups mean employees may end up with less. And don’t forget those huge tax bills. <\/p>\n

Still, these estimates give a real taste of the wealth that Silicon Valley has created \u2014 and spread among workers.<\/p>\n

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