Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M last year

Dario Amodei earned $18M last year as chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, according to the c ompany’s IPO prospectus.

Reuters reported the figure on Tuesday after seeing the filing, which has not been made public.

Most of the package came as stock and options rather than salary. Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s president, each had their annual salary doubled to $1.4M in July. Daniela Amodei received a total of $16.4M for 2025.

The board of Anthropic has also committed to giving the two of them more shares this year in the form of restricted stock units, some of which are conditional on them remaining with the company and some of which are tied to the listing.

The document states that Krishna Rao’s salary for 2025 will be $720,250. Rao, who joined the company in 2024 and was granted options to 1.4 million shares, exercised options valued at $385,285 the previous year. Anthropic did not provide any comment on the figures when Reuters inquired.

Anthropic is set to go public as early as this autumn at a valuation that could exceed $2 trillion, as stated in the prospectus, and it submitted its application for the listing confidentially in June.

Amodei’s salary is typical of what top executives at big technology companies receive, since Oracle’s co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk earned $627.5 million in 2025.

Also, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet made $10.9 million, most of which was paid for his personal security, and Andy Jassy of Amazon made $2.1 million.

The annual figures fail to take into account most of the wealth which these founders and executives possess in the form of shares.

If, instead, the SEC measure of compensation actually paid is applied, one that includes changes in the value of unvested stock, Pichai received $213.9 million and Jassy $13.2 million.

Founders rarely need large annual pay, said Courtney Yu, director of research at pay data firm Equilar.

“They can just live off the wealth of the equity they already own,” Yu told Reuters.

The prospectus fails to state the founders’ ownership percentages, whereas Amodei and Anthropic’s other six co-founders committed in the filing to donating 80% of their personal shares in Anthropic to charity.

This week, AI researcher Yann LeCun also described Amode i as “deluded”.