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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by Mc_Big_G on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:01PM (#12541680)
"plus two full time staff that are employed by other entities (Mozilla and EFF)"

So, that's 10. $206k/employee The accepted amount of benefits & costs per employee is around 35%, so now we're at $134k/employee. This is not a high salary for an engineer in San Francisco. In fact, I'd say it's pretty damn low.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by JshWright on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:05PM (#12541720)
LE isn't paying for the staff coming from Mozilla and EFF. The 2.06m is split across 8 people, not 10.

EDIT: Per a follow up tweet, the staffing is expected to increase to 10 in 2017 (presumably plus the two from third parties), so it is /10, not /8, but not for the reason you described.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by Mc_Big_G on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:33PM (#12542574)
True, I misunderstood who was paying the salary. Even at 8 it's just a normal SF salary.
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