RIP 'rest and vest.' Big Tech has a new way of paying employees.

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Tech salaries: Here's how much the top companies pay engineers and other key roles in 2025

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Tech salaries are soaring, and corporate companies are cutting big checks to lock down top talent.

From Silicon Valley giants to retailers, media companies, telecom firms, and gig platforms, the salaries offered reflect just how competitive the market has become.

Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay deal is ambitious — but so was his last 'mammoth' one, tech guru says

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Spacex founder Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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The crackdown on Elon Musk's pay has backfired spectacularly

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Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk laughs during an in-conversation event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk laughing

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Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war. This internal document reveals why.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

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OpenAI tops the charts for +$1 million tech pay packages

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (L) talks online with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at an event in Tokyo

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Microsoft is trying to poach Meta AI talent and offering multimillion-dollar pay packages, internal documents show

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Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella are all in on AI.

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AT&T just made it official: Workplace loyalty is dead

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Meta salaries: See how much AI engineers, researchers, and more at the tech giant get paid

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Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

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Inside Amazon's radical redo of the 'Everything Store'

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City.

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