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>>mikece+(OP)
> Another $19 million a year or so out of Signal’s budget pays for its staff. Signal now employs about 50 people, a far larger team than a few years ago.

What? I know silicon valley salaries are a thing, but absolutely everywhere else in the world this would be insane. Maybe change the headquarters to somewhere cheaper?

>>vjk800+Q7
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.

>>sky_rw+69
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...

>>hansSj+Sb
They have devs and support engineers earning 700k, more than the CTO?

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

>>hansSj+0g
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)