Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (다리오 아모데이) received $18 million in compensation last year, worth about 24 billion won.

Bloomberg and other major foreign media reported on Oct. 6 that Anthropic’s IPO filing included the details and that the pay level ranked in the middle among major technology company CEOs.

Anthropic is pursuing a listing as early as this autumn. The filing put the company’s value at a level that could exceed $2 trillion, worth about 2,677 trillion won. Amodei’s 2025 compensation was higher than that of the CEOs of Alphabet and Amazon, but lower than that of executives at Oracle and Nvidia.

The compensation package was weighted heavily toward stock and other awards rather than cash. Amodei and his younger sister, Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s president, each had their annual salary doubled to $1.4 million in July. Based on total 2025 compensation, Daniela Amodei received $16.4 million, worth about 22 billion won.

The board also promised restricted stock awards to the pair this year. The awards will be paid in the future only if certain conditions are met. Some depend on continued employment at the company, and some hinge on whether the IPO is completed. Chief financial officer Krishna Rao (크리슈나 라오) received $720,250 last year, worth about 970 million won, and received options to buy 1.4 million shares when he joined in 2024. In 2025, he exercised options worth $385,285, about 515.9 million won.

Anthropic did not offer separate comment on the compensation figures. The filing said it designed its compensation system by combining salary, equity awards and other benefits.

The market is focusing on compensation structures at artificial intelligence (AI) companies ahead of listings. Courtney Yu (코트니 유), head of research at executive pay data firm Equilar, said Amodei’s $18 million compensation "seems low for a company with a market value of $2 trillion" and that the assessment could change once the equity structure is revealed after the listing. Yu said that with six additional co-founders, the share of wealth created by the listing could be smaller than for founders and CEOs at other large technology companies.

U.S. large-company CEO pay has increased rapidly in recent years. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations said the average annual pay of S&P 500 CEOs last year rose 21 percent to $22.8 million, about 30.5 billion won. A restricted stock plan valued at $158 billion for Tesla's Elon Musk was handled separately in the statistics.

Compared with other Big Tech companies, annual disclosed compensation and actual asset size can differ sharply. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai received $10.9 million in 2025, about 14.5 billion won, of which $8.8 million, about 11.7 billion won, was for personal security costs. His compensation based on actual payments was $213.9 million, about 286.3 billion won. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy received $2.1 million in 2025, about 2.8 billion won, while his pay based on actual payments was $13.2 million, about 17.6 billion won.

Yu said such disclosures show founders' and CEOs' compensation structures well. "CEOs typically hold enough equity that if the company does well and the stock rises, they can live off the value of the shares they already own," he said. "In many cases, they do not need to receive large cash compensation every year," he said.

The filing did not include founders' ownership stakes. Depending on final listing terms and valuation, the value of founders' holdings could reach billions of dollars. It also disclosed that the Amodei siblings and other co-founders will use 80 percent of their personally held Anthropic shares for charitable purposes.

An Anthropic spokesperson referred to a post Amodei wrote this year regarding the 80 percent pledge. Amodei said at the time that "wealthy individuals have a duty to help solve problems arising from the spread of AI" and criticised what he described as a cynical and nihilistic attitude among many wealthy people in the tech industry who view recent charitable activity as inevitably fraudulent or useless.