Ryan Kidd

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958 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Feb

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I would bet mid-level and higher people are making over a million, even on the safety teams of these labs, but I don't have any private data on that.

But yeah, if you join as a junior software engineer, don't be surprised if you get somewhere around $350K or something.

At nonprofits, obviously, it's lower, right?

They can't compete with equity.

They don't have any equity, but they also typically have less funding.

Coefficient giving's pockets aren't as deep as the collective might of U.S.

venture capitalism.

And I think there is also something like, there is something like a nonprofit tax.

I wouldn't say there's a safety tax.

I'll say there's a nonprofit tax, right?

Because there are nonprofits that are doing like AI capabilities stuff, like Allen Institute for AI.

People make a lot of money still, right?

There's like, this is artificial intelligence, right?

And Coefficient Giving understands and other funders understand that, you know, you have to pay to play.

So you have organizations like Meter where they are, I believe, offering quite a lot of money for their roles, upwards of $300K for most roles.

Like, yeah, probably over a million for some, I would dare say.

So there are nonprofits that are really, really trying to compete for talent.

They can't offer anything like the Frontier Lab salaries, including equity, but they're trying their best.

And I think this is kind of reasonable, but it also is a bit...

It is a bit of an insane moment.

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