Recomputed every morning · 2026-09-04
Which companies tell you what they pay?
48 of 93 publish a band on at least one role. 12 publish on every single posting, and 21 with three or more roles publish on none.
Publish on every posting
Three or more live roles, a band on all of them. This is the list worth knowing before you spend an evening on an application.
| Company | Open roles | With a band |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 43 | 43 |
| xAI | 11 | 11 |
| Mercor | 9 | 9 |
| Character AI | 5 | 5 |
| CoreWeave (Weights & Biases) | 5 | 5 |
| FAR AI nonprofit | 5 | 5 |
| Gray Swan AI | 5 | 5 |
| Distyl AI | 4 | 4 |
| Astera Institute | 4 | 4 |
| Harvey | 3 | 3 |
| Abridge | 3 | 3 |
| Microsoft AI | 3 | 3 |
Publish on none of them
Three or more live roles, no band on any. Read this as a disclosure practice and not as a statement about what they pay: transparency law requires a band in several states and not in others, and a company hiring outside those states is under no obligation to say anything.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Anthropic | 83 |
| Amazon | 33 |
| Apple | 22 |
| Reflection AI | 17 |
| Faculty AI | 16 |
| 13 | |
| Mistral AI | 10 |
| Databricks | 8 |
| Surge AI | 7 |
| UK AI Security Institute | 6 |
| Cursor | 5 |
| Microsoft | 5 |
| METR | 4 |
| Synthesia | 4 |
| DeepL | 4 |
| Prolific | 3 |
| Labelbox | 3 |
| Cognition | 3 |
| Poolside | 3 |
| Meta | 3 |
| Transluce | 3 |
Method. Counted across 637 live roles at 93 companies. "Publishes a band" means the posting states an annual USD range this board can compare; hourly contract rates and non-USD bands are excluded from the count, so a company advertising only hourly work will appear not to publish. Companies need three or more live roles to appear on either list, because one silent posting is not a policy.
What changed on this board this weekWhat changed since last Thursday: new roles, roles that closed, and pay moves.
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