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We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 32 points 11 months ago

In total, around 50 full-time employees currently work on Signal

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When benefits, HR services, taxes, recruiting, and salaries are included, this translates to around $19 million dollars per year.

That's 380k/employee on average. Even if half of that went to taxes and other expenses, on average they're paying their employees around 190k/year.

Bro, as a European dev, that's triple my salary! They could possibly double or triple their workforce if they hired from outside of the US.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I don't care if employees are well paid. I do care that Signal takes 50 employees to operate. What are they all doing? This is a genuine question

[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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