Top 1% 'AI-pilled' firms spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI

‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

Ramp AI Index data shows the top 1% of US firms spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI. That's still below the ~$16,000 monthly salary of an average software engineer, but spending grew 14.1% month-over-month. The top 10% spend $611 per employee, and the median is just $11.38. Heavy users tend to mix frontier models with platforms offering cheaper open-source access.

Why it matters: Ramp provides a real transaction-data distribution of enterprise AI spend — not a survey, so it carries weight. The $7,500 figure grabs attention, but the source is a single spend-management platform biased toward Ramp's customer base, which keeps the score below 85.