Anthropic's colossal pay packages cost the company more than $100,000 a month per employee

What happened: Anthropic's amended S-1 filing shows personnel expenses topped $1.7 billion for its 5,300 workers from July through September, ahead of its IPO later this month. Key numbers: $322,000 average personnel expense per worker for the quarter; $4.8 billion in personnel costs over the first nine months of 2026; $1.1 billion in stock-based compensation for the quarter; personnel Why it matters: The filing indicates the IPO will mint a new cohort of multimillionaires among employees, and Anthropic wrote that a successful listing would increase its personnel costs in coming quarters.

Anthropic's amended S-1 filing shows personnel expenses topped $1.7 billion for its 5,300 workers from July through September, ahead of its IPO later this month.

The filing indicates the IPO will mint a new cohort of multimillionaires among employees, and Anthropic wrote that a successful listing would increase its personnel costs in coming quarters.