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50 employees is too many? (140k per person)

100 employees is too many? (70k per person)

* that 140k and 70k include things like healthcare and benefits too, I bet.

I remember reading though a page where they listed their employees and I remember it was 100+, I wanted to include the link in my comment, buy couldn't find it this time.

So they're getting paid less than the going rate, at least the software engineers are. Interesting.

Have you considered many of them that are on the payroll might have other jobs and so the volume is to make up for the fact that they're not all 40+ hours full time? I think this is much more complicated than we could first expect

You know, they probably need a couple people part time for every language that has a wikipedia version.

Without a breakdown of where the employees are located and their positions, you can't possibly say anyone at Wikimedia is getting paid more or less than the going rate.

I doubt most of them would be engineers, or even technical people.

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Kinda nice to give people jobs, actually

Wikimedia's wikipedia page says they have 142 employees as of sept 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

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