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I'm surprised how low a Corporate Gold membership is, just €30k a year. They claim that is half of a developer year.

https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/

Is the assumption that beyond that you would just hire your own developer to work on blender?

€60.000/yr seems reasonable. This is the average salary in the Netherlands (home of the blender foundation).

Could you provide a source for this statement because I'm pretty sure it's actually closer to 45k/y for fairly experienced developers

No, ezperienced C++ devs with the math skills you need to do 3d dev make 60k or more, 45k is just above fresh graduate level. I don't have an online source, just from what I know from companies and people I know, and doing hiring myself in the past. I made more than 45k 10+ years ago when I was an employee.

I was on approx 60k eur in Amsterdam a few years ago with 3 years experience

I should have been more clear. My point isn't that the salary comparison was off but that €30k/y is peanuts for a large organization. I would expect to see some higher sponsor levels.

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