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Besides the HQ, what else is left is a $1 million/year Chair (up from $801k the year before), a Director on $874k (up from $779k) and a Treasurer on $908k (up f
by steve19 11y ago
Besides the HQ, what else is left is a $1 million/year Chair (up from $801k the year before), a Director on $874k (up from $779k) and a Treasurer on $908k (up from $613k) [0] [1]
I do not begrudge high their salaries in the slightest, but I can't help but think bringing on folks with half the salary of the above employees would buy enough coders to do more innovation, which they really need. The Technical Lead in 2013 got $179,000 (the job is not listed in the financials in 2014).
The those three top job cost the equivalent of 20% of the Foundations revenue in the 2014 year ($13.5 million, more or less evenly split between donations and "program service revenue").
[0] Year end 2013 Financials: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2013_Mozilla_Foundation_Fed_990_Public_Disclosure.pdf https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2013_Mozilla_Found...
[1] Year end 2014 Financials: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2014_Mozilla_Foundation_Fed_990_Public_Disclosure.pdf https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2014_Mozilla_Found...
Edit: revised 2014 figures higher as I was not looking at total compensation.
- wodenokoto 11y agoThe foundation doesn't do any engineering work on Firefox. Paid coding is funded from the 300 million or so dollars a year the Mozilla corporation makes in search revenue. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3009646/search/mozilla-revenue-climbs-5-in-final-year-of-google-search-deal.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/3009646/search/mozilla-...