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I wonder how profitable these I make $X,XXX,XXX in revenue and here's how type posts are. I counted 17 people in one of their pictures and if you assume they cost $100,000 each, that's $1,700,000 in salary cost alone. Then there's 3 offices and all of the other overhead/costs they have to pay.

I've worked on some hobby SAAS stuff and every time I look at the numbers to see what it would take to equal my salary the numbers are staggering.

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>$100,000 each

I think that's the key point made here, that these high salaries are not demanded if you aren't hiring on the U.S. west coast.

Parent may be saying that 100k is a reasonable per-clueful-person cost pretty much anywhere. I'm in the middle of the USA and I wouldn't expect to hire a competent engineer for less than $100k.

Anywhere in the us maybe, nowhere else in the world except maybe switzerland. The blog post specifically mentions being remote and not all in the US

Yeah, I'm sure it's cheaper in other areas. It's mostly just an observation. I wonder what sort of profitability companies like this have and how it would compare to someone's salary that manages a department of ~20.

You're assuming that every person is an engineer that demands a high salary. I'm willing to put $100k on the fact that most likely only 1/3 are engineers and the rest are support and ancillary staff.

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