← Back to context Comment by Dma54rhs 3 years ago People working for them earn 100k+, Wikipedia has volunteers writhing the content for free. 5 comments Dma54rhs Reply yupper32 3 years ago If you want to compare it based on the people working for each company:Parag has around 3900 employees. Wikipedia has around 550. Around 7x multiplier.$30m / 7 = ~$4.3milSundar has around 135k employees. 245x multiplier.$250m / 245 = ~$1mil.$350k seems like a steal no matter how you put it. akolbe 3 years ago How about comparing it to the Internet Archive (2019)? 169 employees, $11M salary costs:https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...Wikimedia Foundation (2019): 291 employees, $56M salary costs.https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...Less than twice the US employees, more than five times the salary costs. (Both orgs also have some non-US employees included in the salary costs total, but they are a small minority of the staff.) yupper32 3 years ago $11mil / 169 = ~$65k / employee. So average pay at Internet Archive is barely over the median salary in the US? That's not good.Salary costs don't need to be looked at as something to aggressively push down. You can treat your employees well while still being a non-profit.(Though I'm not claiming wikipedia treats their employees well, I have no idea.) 2 replies →
yupper32 3 years ago If you want to compare it based on the people working for each company:Parag has around 3900 employees. Wikipedia has around 550. Around 7x multiplier.$30m / 7 = ~$4.3milSundar has around 135k employees. 245x multiplier.$250m / 245 = ~$1mil.$350k seems like a steal no matter how you put it. akolbe 3 years ago How about comparing it to the Internet Archive (2019)? 169 employees, $11M salary costs:https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...Wikimedia Foundation (2019): 291 employees, $56M salary costs.https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...Less than twice the US employees, more than five times the salary costs. (Both orgs also have some non-US employees included in the salary costs total, but they are a small minority of the staff.) yupper32 3 years ago $11mil / 169 = ~$65k / employee. So average pay at Internet Archive is barely over the median salary in the US? That's not good.Salary costs don't need to be looked at as something to aggressively push down. You can treat your employees well while still being a non-profit.(Though I'm not claiming wikipedia treats their employees well, I have no idea.) 2 replies →
akolbe 3 years ago How about comparing it to the Internet Archive (2019)? 169 employees, $11M salary costs:https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...Wikimedia Foundation (2019): 291 employees, $56M salary costs.https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...Less than twice the US employees, more than five times the salary costs. (Both orgs also have some non-US employees included in the salary costs total, but they are a small minority of the staff.) yupper32 3 years ago $11mil / 169 = ~$65k / employee. So average pay at Internet Archive is barely over the median salary in the US? That's not good.Salary costs don't need to be looked at as something to aggressively push down. You can treat your employees well while still being a non-profit.(Though I'm not claiming wikipedia treats their employees well, I have no idea.) 2 replies →
yupper32 3 years ago $11mil / 169 = ~$65k / employee. So average pay at Internet Archive is barely over the median salary in the US? That's not good.Salary costs don't need to be looked at as something to aggressively push down. You can treat your employees well while still being a non-profit.(Though I'm not claiming wikipedia treats their employees well, I have no idea.) 2 replies →
If you want to compare it based on the people working for each company:
Parag has around 3900 employees. Wikipedia has around 550. Around 7x multiplier.
$30m / 7 = ~$4.3mil
Sundar has around 135k employees. 245x multiplier.
$250m / 245 = ~$1mil.
$350k seems like a steal no matter how you put it.
How about comparing it to the Internet Archive (2019)? 169 employees, $11M salary costs:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...
Wikimedia Foundation (2019): 291 employees, $56M salary costs.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...
Less than twice the US employees, more than five times the salary costs. (Both orgs also have some non-US employees included in the salary costs total, but they are a small minority of the staff.)
$11mil / 169 = ~$65k / employee. So average pay at Internet Archive is barely over the median salary in the US? That's not good.
Salary costs don't need to be looked at as something to aggressively push down. You can treat your employees well while still being a non-profit.
(Though I'm not claiming wikipedia treats their employees well, I have no idea.)
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