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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Oct 15, 2026)

OpenAI London Staff Average Pay Hits 2.32M GBP

KEY FACTS

  • OpenAI's London division paid an average of 2.318 million GBP per employee across 110 staff in 2025.
  • Total staff salaries reached 87 million GBP, with an additional 168 million GBP in equity.
  • That pay is 58 times the median income of full-time employees in the UK.
  • OpenAI's UK entity generated 293 million GBP in revenue and 20.3 million GBP in profit in 2025.
  • The London office is OpenAI's largest overseas R&D center.

KEY DATA

2.318181 million GBPAverage pay at London division
110Number of employees
87 million GBPTotal salaries
293 million GBPUK company revenue

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

An average pay package of 2.3 million GBP per head shows that leading AI companies are locking down scarce researchers with finance-industry-level compensation. London's King's Cross area clusters DeepMind and OpenAI, and that talent density drives up costs while widening internal pay gaps. For the industry, this money-burning talent grab is unlikely to cool in the short term, and small and mid-sized AI companies will be squeezed further.

Source: IT Home report