Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei made $18 million in 2025

Mixed · 2Dario Amodei made $18 million in 2025 as chief executive of Claude developer Anthropic, according to the company's IPO filing, which puts him in the middle ranks of top technology executives for pay. 1 2 Mixed · 2According to the prospectus seen by Reuters, Anthropic is preparing an IPO as early as this fall that could value it at more than $2 trillion. Amodei's 2025 pay was above that of the CEOs of Alphabet and Amazon but below those at Oracle and Nvidia. 1 2 Mixed · 2Amodei and his sister, Anthropic president Daniela Amodei, each had their annual salary doubled in July to $1.4 million. Stock and options made up most of their 2025 packages, and Daniela Amodei received a total of $16.4 million. 1 2

Centre · 1The board granted the pair restricted stock units in 2026, which pay out in future if conditions are met. Some are tied to staying at the company and some to the IPO. 1 Mixed · 2Chief financial officer Krishna Rao earned $720,250 in 2025. He was granted options on 1.4 million shares when hired in 2024 and exercised options worth $385,285 in 2025. 1 2 Mixed · 2An Anthropic spokesperson declined to comment on the figures. The company said in the filing that it offered a mix of salary, equity awards and other benefits. 1 2

Mixed · 2Courtney Yu of executive compensation data firm Equilar said $18 million "seems on the lower end for a company valued at $2 trillion" and that it will be interesting to see how this changes once the company is public and his full ownership stake is shown. She added that, with six other co-founders, Amodei may get a smaller share of IPO wealth than other major tech CEOs. 1 2 Mixed · 2The S-1 does not describe the founders' ownership share, which could be worth billions depending on the IPO's terms and valuation. The Amodei siblings and the other co-founders pledged in the filing to give 80% of their personal Anthropic equity to charity. 1 2 Mixed · 2Asked about the 80% pledge, a spokesperson pointed to an essay by Dario Amodei earlier this year. In it he wrote that wealthy people have an obligation to help address problems stemming from AI adoption, and he criticised a "cynical and nihilistic attitude" that philanthropy is fraudulent or useless. 1 2

Mixed · 2For comparison, Oracle co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk earned $627.5 million in 2025, while Elon Musk was paid $54,080 as CEO of SpaceX before it went public. Alphabet's Sundar Pichai made $10.9 million, including $8.8 million for personal security, and $213.9 million on a "compensation actually paid" basis. Amazon's Andrew Jassy made $2.1 million, or $13.2 million on that basis. 1 2 Mixed · 2The AFL-CIO says average S&P 500 CEO pay rose 21% to $22.8 million in 2025, excluding Musk's $158 billion Tesla restricted stock plan. Critics worry the gap with average workers' pay could widen as AI spreads. 1 2