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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
(signal.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I would never have guessed that an app like signal would spend almost 20 million in salaries. I wonder what is the salary of the executives.
I mean, without browsing levels.fyi or anything like that you can get 4 to 10 software engineers for 1 million (anything from 100k to 250k depending on location, experience, etc.).
Not all employees are engineers but that would imply 80 to 200 staff for the 20 million they state.
That's only the component paid to the actual staff though. There are additional costs like Healthcare, unemployment, social security, etc, and other benefits that may not be included in wages (though some portion may be deducted from salaries), but they are including in that statement / summary.
It says that they have 50 full time employees.