On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 06:45:47PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:41 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > we > > raised 40 thousand dollars on a part time system administrator, and > > that's a fraction of the cost of a full time developer. > > $40,000 is a reasonable salary for a full-time American developer, as > long as he's not located someplace with a stupid cost of living like San > Francisco or New York or LA. Of course it's not a competitive salary, > but we're a nonprofit and it would be wasteful for us to pay a > competitive salary. It's not like we're competing for talent....
Having 40k USD doesn't mean you get to spend that all on a developer. At least in Europe there is a huge amount of overhead (factor of 2.0-2.5 IIRC for .nl). -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
