SF Six-Figure Tech Workers Say AI-Elite Pay Is Pricing
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- OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to go public, fueling what the article describes as a new "AI elite" in San Francisco whose paychecks outpace those of neighboring tech workers.
- Six-figure San Francisco tech workers are grumbling that they cannot compete financially with AI-company employees and warn they may have to leave the city as IPO-driven wealth widens the gap.
Why it matters: If OpenAI and Anthropic go public with the valuations attached to their recent fundraising, IPO liquidity could deepen San Francisco's wage stratification and accelerate the displacement of non-AI tech talent from the city.
