$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep
They have to compete with the rest of Silicon Valley. That's about what it costs to get a good engineer around here, when you count benefits.
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#12$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep
That's for ten employees, not eight. Salary + benefits.
Could have been more clear in the post, but we have eight employees now and have budgeted for ten in 2017.
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#13$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep
Approximately 100% salary overhead is pretty standard, so eight $125k employees plus infrastructure and office costs sounds reasonable.
8 x $125K would be $1M, not the $2M that is currently being spent on employees.
Edit: Missed the first part of that, I apologise. 100% overhead doesn't seem reasonable per employee to me though.
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#14|$250k/employee hmmmm
They should consider running the service in Canada, where software engineer / programmer salaries are a third of that
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#15I'm quite surprised - $2.06 on staffing seemed steep, so obviously read on as I was thinking that there must be a lot of employees. But 8? OK, I'm just a teacher, and I earn around £30k a year... not the kind of figures I've seen bandied about on here for graduate programmers who seem to be pulling in 8-10 times that for their first job... So I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the payroll (which I doubt would ha…
people who seriously know how to code mission critical X.590 root CA PKI infrastructure are not cheap when you're looking at total benefits/compensation per head.
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#16$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep
Its actually 2.06m for 10 employees: https://twitter.com/0xjosh/status/778283999609298944
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#17> We’re currently working to raise the money we need to operate through the next year. Please consider donating or becoming a sponsor if you’re able to do so! In the event that we end up being able to raise more money than we need to just keep Let’s Encrypt running we can look into adding other services to improve access to a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.
Wouldn't they want to secure funding for 5+ years for existing services before considering adding other services?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Approximately 100% salary overhead is pretty standard, so eight $125k employees plus infrastructure and office costs sounds reasonable.
8 x $125K would be $1M, not the $2M that is currently being spent on employees. Edit: Missed the first part of that, I apologise. 100% overhead doesn't seem reasonable per employee to me though.
it's (8125k) 2 since there is 100% overhead
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#20I'm quite surprised - $2.06 on staffing seemed steep, so obviously read on as I was thinking that there must be a lot of employees. But 8? OK, I'm just a teacher, and I earn around £30k a year... not the kind of figures I've seen bandied about on here for graduate programmers who seem to be pulling in 8-10 times that for their first job... So I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the payroll (which I doubt would ha…
I guess 20k a month per engineer by default, all in. That's probably out of date since I've been using the same number for over ten years now.