Anthropic paid Chief Executive Dario Amodei $18 million for 2025, according to the company's unpublished IPO prospectus, which was seen by Reuters. Stock and option awards made up most of the pay.

The package places Amodei in the middle of the pack among big-tech chief executives, while the upcoming listing could value Anthropic at more than $2 trillion. The prospectus omits the one figure founders care about most — their ownership stakes — and, depending on the final IPO pricing, those holdings may be worth billions of dollars. Ownership figures typically appear only when the prospectus is filed publicly, and their dollar value is fixed when the offering is priced just before trading begins.

Pay disclosures like these are rare for private companies, which face no obligation to publish executive compensation; registration statements filed ahead of a listing are often the first public window into how a startup pays its leadership.

Both Siblings' Salaries Doubled to $1.4 Million in July

Both Amodei and his sister Daniela, Anthropic's president, saw their salaries double to $1.4 million in July. Daniela's total package for 2025 came to $16.4 million.

The two siblings are set to receive more equity. This year, the board pledged them restricted stock units — awards that convert into shares only once specified conditions are met — with part of the payout contingent on their staying at Anthropic and part tied to the listing.

Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao, who was hired in 2024 with options on 1.4 million shares, earned $720,250 in 2025 and exercised options worth $385,285 during the year. Anthropic declined to comment on the compensation data.

Oracle's Co-CEO Topped the Field at $627.5 Million

Amodei ranked above the chiefs of Alphabet and Amazon but below their counterparts at Oracle and Nvidia. Sundar Pichai's $10.9 million at Alphabet went largely toward an $8.8 million personal security bill, while Andy Jassy's $2.1 million at Amazon was mostly spent on travel and security.

Under the SEC's "compensation actually paid" measure, an annual disclosure requirement for public companies that includes changes in unvested stock, Pichai's compensation soared to $213.9 million in 2025, and Jassy's rose to $13.2 million. Oracle co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk led the pack at $627.5 million.

By contrast, SpaceX paid Elon Musk $54,080 as chief executive before going public, and promised him super-voting shares if the company hits a $7.5 trillion valuation and gets 1 million people on Mars.

Amodei's $18 million also trails the $22.8 million average for chief executives of S&P 500 companies, a figure the AFL-CIO says climbed 21% last year, not counting Musk's $158 billion Tesla stock plan.

Courtney Yu, research director at compensation tracker Equilar, said $18 million sits on the low side for a $2 trillion company. Founder-CEOs rarely rely on annual pay because their equity holdings already take care of them, she noted. Amodei, who started the company with six other co-founders, may get a smaller piece of the IPO bounty than other tech chieftains, Yu added.

Amodei and his co-founders also said in the filing that they would give away 80% of their own Anthropic shares to charity. Pressed on the pledge, Anthropic pointed to an essay Amodei published earlier this year in which he argued that the wealthy owe aid for the problems AI creates and faulted a "cynical and nihilistic attitude" toward philanthropy among rich people in tech.

Risk factors make up about 80 pages of the 261-page prospectus, as Cryptopolitan reported, including a warning that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." The company confidentially filed its draft S-1 on June 1, according to earlier Cryptopolitan reports.

In an interview with Fortune, AI researcher Yann LeCun this week called Amodei "deluded."