[sky_rw]

I keep re-reading this section of their blog post trying to figure out what I'm missing here. $2.6 million full load per employee on avg? Is this heavily weighted to a few executives? Can somebody explain this to me?

Edit: I'm stupid and did the math backwards.

[jedberg]

You mathed backwards. It's $380K per person fully loaded. Which is pretty inline with decent tech salary these days.

[datpiff]

That is their total cost, not the salary paid.

[jedberg]

Yes, which is why I said "fully loaded"

[hansSjoberg]

A few employees and their compensation are listed on their Form 990, page 7. Sidenote: did "Moxie" legally change his name from Matthew Rosenfeld?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...

[rodlette]

They have devs and support engineers earning 700k, more than the CTO?

[hansSjoberg]

700k to drag your feet on implementing usernames for a full decade, seems cushy.

[contact9879]

It's in testing now; you'll soon have to switch to complaining about some other thing.

Anyway, considering usernames required an extensive redesign of how Signal works, it's not surprising it took 5 years (3 years of full time)

[winterismute]

Isn't it 380k per person in average? Seems like in-line with FAANG salaries in major US cities.

[candiddevmike]

Only thing I can think of is it incentives them not to put backdoors into Signal/get fired.

[dangoor]

I think your math is off? $19M/50 people = $380,000?

[dale_glass]

You're doing that division backwards.