{"id":20630,"date":"2026-06-11T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/?p=20630"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:55:06","slug":"ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-ai-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/en\/news\/20630","title":{"rendered":"The AI Spending Gap: Top AI-Spending Firms Pay About $7,500 per Employee, While the Median Is Just $11.38"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-hidden-front is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-bc4dd9bf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"post-title wp-block-paragraph\">The AI Spending Gap: Top AI-Spending Firms Pay About $7,500 per Employee, While the Median Is Just $11.38<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post-date wp-block-paragraph\">June 11, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"post-content\" class=\"wp-block-group content is-post has-medium-font-size is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a98c9622 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-ai-spend-manual-20260924-1447-1.jpg\" alt=\"The AI Spending Gap: Top AI-Spending Firms Pay About $7,500 per Employee, While the Median Is Just $11.38\" class=\"wp-image-22786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-ai-spend-manual-20260924-1447-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-ai-spend-manual-20260924-1447-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-ai-spend-manual-20260924-1447-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-ai-spend-manual-20260924-1447-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>How much are companies actually spending on AI? <br><br>According to data from the fintech company Ramp, firms in the top 1% by per-employee AI spend now pay about $7,500 per worker each month. <br><br>The median firm spends just $11.38, showing how unevenly paid AI spending is distributed across businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Three Tiers of Spending and What the Numbers Cover<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Ramp AI Index measures paid AI use among US businesses using spending data from Ramp&#8217;s corporate card and bill-pay platform. The latest update shows a wide gap between firms by per-employee AI spend. <br><br>The top 1% \u2014 which Ramp calls &#8220;AI-pilled&#8221; \u2014 spend about $7,500 a month per employee, or $7,449 based on Ramp&#8217;s published figure. <br><br>This figure is not what each worker personally pays; it is a company&#8217;s total AI spend divided by its headcount, expressed on a per-employee basis. Normalizing per employee makes it easier to compare firms of different sizes and to put AI spend in the context of labor costs. <br><br>The top 10% spend about $611, and the median just $11.38, close to the cost of a single AI subscription seat. Based on the official figures, the gap between the top 1% and the median is about 650 times. <br><br>One caveat matters: these numbers reflect only spending Ramp can see. Because Ramp measures corporate-card and invoice-based payments, free AI tools and AI used through employees&#8217; personal accounts may not be captured, so the data shows paid corporate AI spending rather than the full picture of US AI adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>AI Costs Are Rising, but Payroll Still Sets the Benchmark<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers raise a pointed question: are firms starting to spend more on AI than on their workers? <br><br>Bryan Catanzaro, an Nvidia executive, reportedly said that on his own team the cost of compute now exceeds the cost of employees, and the CEO of Mercor, an AI startup, said the company spends more on tokens for its internal agents than on employee salaries. <br><br>But Ramp&#8217;s data suggests that, across firms, the answer for now is no. TechCrunch cites a benchmark of about $16,000 a month for a US software engineer; the roughly $7,500 a month that top-1% firms reportedly spend per employee on AI falls short of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>What the Spending Gap Says About a Two-Speed Rollout<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What stands out is that spending is still rising, at least recently. Among AI-pilled firms, per-employee AI spend grew 14.1% in the past month. These firms tend to mix and match, moving between multiple frontier models and cheaper open-source options depending on the task. <br><br>Compared with a median firm spending just $11.38 per employee, the data points to a sharply two-speed rollout: a small group experimenting at scale while most companies have yet to commit real budget to paid AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>What to Watch Next<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">AI-pilled firms grew their per-employee AI spend 14.1% in a single month, but it is not yet clear whether that pace will hold. As companies blend frontier and lower-cost open-source models, the open question is whether the wide spending gap across firms narrows or widens \u2014 a key signal for the next phase of AI adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ramp.com\/data\/ai-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramp &#8211; Ramp AI Index<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/econlab.substack.com\/p\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-be-ai-pilled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramp Economics Lab &#8211; How much does it cost to be AI-pilled?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/10\/ai-pilled-firms-spend-7500-per-employee-each-month-on-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch &#8211; &#8216;AI-pilled&#8217; firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-pilled-firms-7500-per-employee-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Next Web &#8211; The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/04\/28\/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortune &#8211; Nvidia executive says compute costs exceed employee costs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-startup-mercor-spends-more-on-tokens-than-payroll-2026-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Insider &#8211; Mercor&#8217;s CEO says it now spends more on AI tokens than 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