Top 1% of Firms Spend $7,500 per Employee on AI as Monthly Outlays Rise 14.1%
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 10
Top 1% of Firms Spend $7,500 per Employee on AI as Monthly Outlays Rise 14.1%
2 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 10
Summary
$7,500 per employee per month is what Ramp says the top 1% of “AI-pilled” U.S. firms now spend on AI, with that group’s outlays rising 14.1% last month.
Ramp’s data suggests AI budgets still trail labor costs: the $7,500 figure remains well below the roughly $16,000 monthly pay of an average software engineer.
$611 per employee is the monthly AI spend for the top 10% of firms, while the median business spends just $11.38—closer to a single enterprise software seat than a payroll line.
Those heavy users often spread spending across multiple frontier models and platforms, including cheaper open-source options, underscoring both rapid adoption and continued price sensitivity.