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OpenAI's 110 London staff each earn £2.3m a year — 58 TIMES the UK median wage

OpenAI's London operation employed 110 staff whose combined earnings made each worker's average pay 58 times the UK median wage.
OpenAI's London operation employed 110 staff whose combined earnings made each worker's average pay 58 times the UK median wage.

OpenAI's London arm paid its 110 employees an average of £2.3 million each last year, with £87.3 million in base salaries topped up by £167.8 million in share-based bonuses averaging £1.5 million per person. Total staff costs hit £258 million in 2025, up from £60.7 million the year before. The figures emerged from UK company accounts as OpenAI expands into a new King's Cross headquarters and pushes towards a $1.4 trillion stock market valuation.

OpenAI's UK turnover nearly tripled from £79.2 million to £293 million last year, driven by a 'significant expansion' in sales, marketing and research.

The bumper pay reflects a fierce AI talent war, with rivals such as Meta reportedly dangling multi-year packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars to poach top researchers.

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