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Employees OpenAI Inc Diederik Kingma

Diederik Kingma

Highest compensated employee

Technical Staff at OpenAI Inc

Fiscal year ended December 31, 2018. Published on January 24, 2026.

$393,570
2018

Total compensation

Diederik Kingma has been listed as an employee of OpenAI Inc in Form 990 filings since at least fiscal year 2016. Total compensation for Diederik Kingma has increased by 115.7% from 2016 to 2018.

Annual compensation details

$393,570
-29.5%
Technical Staff
2018
$386k org
40 hrs/wk
$9k other
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$558,342
+206.1%
Technical Staff
2017
$546k org
40 hrs/wk
$13k other
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Total compensation by year

Compare the compensation of Diederik Kingma to:

2018

Other employees at OpenAI Inc

John Schulman
Senior Researcher
$549,007
$541,667 from orgNo related comp$7,340 other
Jakub Pachocki
Research Lead
$431,509
$416,667 from orgNo related comp$14,842 other
Szymon Sidor
Technical Staff
$421,018
$413,334 from orgNo related comp$7,684 other
Dario Amodei
Research Director
$400,065
$384,167 from orgNo related comp$15,898 other
David Lansky
General Counsel
$309,630
$279,167 from orgNo related comp$30,463 other
Chris Clark
Coo/Sec
$275,624
$275,000 from orgNo related comp$624 other
Ilya Sutskever
Reasearch Director
$190,938
$175,000 from orgNo related comp$15,938 other
Gregory Brockman
Director/Cto
$182,570
$175,000 from orgNo related comp$7,570 other
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Revisions to this profile

January 24, 2026:
2018 OpenAI Inc 990 published
January 24, 2026:
2017 OpenAI Inc 990 published
January 24, 2026:
2016 OpenAI Inc 990 published

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