OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar
The company's stock-based compensation in 2025 reached an average of $1.5 million per employee
“The company's stock-based compensation is about $1.5 million per employee, on average, across its workforce of roughly 4,000.. — The $1.5 million is about 34 times the average employee compensation of 18 other large tech companies in the year before they went public...”