early-career researcher salaries at OpenAI and Anthropic are around twice as high as at DeepSeek, even after accounting for purchasing power.
购买力平价调整后，OpenAI/Anthropic 给初级研究员的薪资仍是 DeepSeek 的两倍——这意味着顶尖人才流向美国不仅是文化和机会问题，还是冷冰冰的经济计算。中国 AI 公司在人才争夺上面临的不只是算力差距，还有薪资结构性劣势。「绝大多数赴美中国 AI 研究员选择留下」这一事实，从这里得到了最朴素的解释。