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Filing year 2024

Center for AI Safety Inc

San Francisco, California·EIN 88-1751310·NTEE U05 · Science & Technology·3
Total revenue
$10.2M
Total assets
$12.6M
Total expenses
$7.2M
Reported officers
10
Mission

to reduce societal-scale risks associated with artificial intelligence AI by advancing safety research, building the field of AI safety researchers, and promoting safety standards.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 8 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Executive Dir.
officer (unspecified)
$321k
$340k
Base
$315k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$7k
Policy Lead
unclassified
$213k
$225k
Base
$198k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$7k
Research Engineer
unclassified
$192k
$204k
Base
$171k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$14k
Base
$170k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$5k
Director
director (operational)
$168k
$178k
Base
$156k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$6k
Project Manager
unclassified
$164k
$173k
Base
$150k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$7k
Research Engineer
unclassified
$153k
$162k
Base
$143k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$6k
Research Engineer
unclassified
$144k
$152k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 2 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Science & Technology

Up 45%
from 2023

From $221k in 2023 to $321k in 2024.

$221k
2023
$321k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 42% in real terms$241k to $340k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

Center for AI Safety Inc reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$16.1M
$8.1M
2023
$10.2M
$7.2M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Science & Technology executives earn in California

Comparable science & technology organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $110,249.

25th percentile
$25k
Median
$110,249
75th percentile
$216k
90th percentile
$360k

These are science & technology sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 50 organizations across 50 filings (2022 – 2023).

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