OpenAI engineers earning RM3.74mil a year turn rare skillset into leverage

In an industry where talent is the scarcest resource, the kind of exodus threatened at OpenAI would have been catastrophic. — AFP

OpenAI reinstated chief executive officer Sam Altman after hundreds of workers threatened to quit over the ChatGPT creator’s ouster, highlighting just how much leverage the tech industry’s most valued workers hold right now.

Artificial intelligence engineers earn anywhere from 8% to 12.5% more than their non-AI counterparts, according to an analysis by compensation data platform Levels.fyi published in May.