<story><title>A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>currymj</author><text>Misleading article and headline; a few celebrity researchers in high-up positions make this much. You can probably find some chemists who make $1M too if they have made it to executive positions.&lt;p&gt;Most AI researchers in industry make a lot of money, $200k+, but that is not so outrageous in the context of big tech companies.&lt;p&gt;And in fact the vast majority of AI researchers are making $20k-$30k a year, because they are graduate students.</text></comment>
<story><title>A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rm999</author><text>&amp;gt; A third big name in the field, the roboticist Pieter Abbeel, made $425,000, though he did not join until June 2016, after taking a leave from his job as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Those figures all include signing bonuses.&lt;p&gt;425k after signing bonus is probably closer to 300-350k base + annual bonus, which feels low for someone in such a distinguished position (close to a typical specialized physician or big tech software engineer with 5-10 years of experience). After finishing my masters degree in machine learning in the mid-2000s, I immediately got job offers higher than my much more talented professors. To me, the real story is that academia has set the compensation bar low for people adding so much value.&lt;p&gt;Edit: to be clear I know these salaries are high and people in my field are lucky to be making so much. But I also don’t think it’s accurate that people in the field are overpaid, which titles like OP may make it seem.</text></comment>