All amounts below are annual USD figures as labelled by the employer, retrieved on 4 November 2026. These are particular US roles, not typical market salary bands, consultancy fees or recommended hiring budgets. OpenAI labels its figure compensation and states that base pay varies, with equity and eligible benefits separate; Anthropic labels the listed ranges annual salary.
| Employer and role | Location shown | Published annual amount | Responsibilities relevant to an archive owner | What the listing establishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI — Data Program Manager, Science | San Francisco | $162,000–$285,000; equity offered | Assess scientific sources and samples; negotiate commercial arrangements; coordinate permissions and delivery. The described focus includes biology and chemistry. | A specific scientific sourcing and partnership function is advertised. |
| Anthropic — Research Counsel | San Francisco / New York City | $265,000–$335,000 | Advise on data sourcing, licensing, research use and related copyright/privacy questions. | Data acquisition has an identifiable legal workstream. |
| Anthropic — IP Counsel, Transactions | San Francisco / New York City | $335,000–$385,000 | IP diligence and negotiation across acquisitions, investments and complex agreements. | Transactional IP capability is being recruited; scope is wider than content licensing. |
| Anthropic — Data Operations Manager, Human Data | San Francisco / New York City | $270,000–$365,000 | Vendor relationships, research requirements, quality frameworks and delivery operations. | Human-data production and vendor management are explicit operational responsibilities. |
| Anthropic — Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco | $500,000–$850,000 | Traceable processing, deduplication, tokenization and validation of training corpora. | Engineering for data processing is a priority in the advertised role. |
The range of seniority and specialisation makes averaging these salaries misleading. In particular, an infrastructure engineering salary is not evidence of the price of a publisher archive, and a human-data operations role may relate to commissioned tasks rather than previously published material.