❯ Anthropic’s prospectus shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18 million last year, mostly in stock and options

$18 millionAccording to Reuters, as relayed by The Next Web, Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows CEO Dario Amodei’s total compensation for 2025 was $18 million, most of it in stock and options. His sister Daniela Amodei, the company’s president, received $16.4 million. Both saw their base salaries double to $1.4 million in July.

Middle of the pack in techThe figure is above Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai ($10.9 million) and Amazon’s Andy Jassy ($2.1 million) and far below the $627.5 million of Oracle co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk. Courtney Yu of executive compensation data firm Equilar said founders “can just live off the wealth of the equity they already own.” The board has also committed to granting Dario Amodei additional restricted stock units, some conditional on tenure and on the company listing.

A pledge to give away 80%The prospectus notes that Amodei and six co-founders have committed to donating 80% of their personal Anthropic shares to charity. Separately, according to The Information, Anthropic reported $540 million in charitable contributions for 2025, against $109 million at BlackRock, the next highest in a comparison with Fortune 500 companies.

What investors look atFor a company targeting a valuation above $2 trillion, executives’ cash pay is not the point. Investors care more about dilution from equity awards and charitable stock matching, and about the pace at which founders sell or donate shares. The prospectus was submitted confidentially in June, with the listing expected this autumn.

▮ SIGNALThe founders’ pay figures are restrained, and the real transfer of wealth is written into the equity and donation arrangements, which will draw more questions after listing than the payroll does.