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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.



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


That is their total cost, not the salary paid.


Yes, which is why I said "fully loaded"


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...


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


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


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)


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


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


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


You're doing that division backwards.




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