Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The alignment premium is not the same as the general AI specialist premium Two pieces of context before the numbers. First, you may have read our earlier report on the general AI engineer salary market, which documented the $206K average US salary and the competition dynamics for LLM specialists broadly. Second, we covered the broader 18.7% specialist premium that AI engineers command over non-AI peers at Staff level. This article covers a different and more concentrated premium sitting on top of those figures: the additional uplift earned by practitioners with genuine depth in AI safety and alignment. These are related but distinct markets. The 18.7% Staff-level figure is the general premium for AI expertise over non-AI engineering peers. The 45% alignment premium is measured against the…
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