1. Not all of the 1200 employees reside in the US. Which implies the U.S. salaries, on average, need to exceed your $140K estimate. IT DOES NOT!!! https://www.g

1. Not all of the 1200 employees reside in the US. Which implies the U.S. salaries, on average, need to exceed your $140K estimate. IT DOES NOT!!! https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Mozilla-Salaries-E19129.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Mozilla-Salaries-E19129.htm 2. Not all of them are devs, and devs are (typically) the most expensive. Which should further increase the average US compensation for devs to MUCH MORE than $140K 3. GitLab has hundreds of employees but they choose to have a lean real estate footprint, especially in exorbitant zip codes like SF to keep costs low. Obviously, Mozilla isn't concerned by minutiae like over paying for real estate 4. Why does Mozilla need a ~$50M marketing budget? HUGE RED FLAG!!! 5. Self adorned morally upright Mozilla squeezing out a $1B to squander on __insert-here__ is a crime against humanity. They neither have a moral edge over Verizon, nor does money in their coffers benefit humanity. It empowers the senior management in much the same way as government funding empowers the morally bankrupt politicians at the helm. In conclusion, Mozilla's budget breaks down into 66% software (whose costs still don't make sense given their global developer footprint), and 33% B.S. overhead. If one digs deeper, (I'm guessing) you'll find the senior management @ Mozilla to be earning orders of magnitude over junior developers - like a private corp. Further, even private corps have no tolerance for 33% of their budget being squandered!! [Atlassian, Gitlab, ...] are famous for having almost $0 in marketing budget, while a not-for-profit like Mozilla THAT HAS NOTHING TO SELL thinks it OK to wash $50M down the loo. We need a politico like organization to go deep into Mozilla's inner workings as these numbers DO NOT COMPUTE