$180,000 Tech Salaries in San Francisco No Longer Feel Like Enough

Tech workers in San Francisco earning up to $180,000 a year say they can no longer keep up financially with the new AI elite employed at firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. The widening pay gap, combined with the city's soaring cost of living, has some six-figure earners questioning whether they can afford to stay. The pressure is intensifying as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public.

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