What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by zachlatta on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:09PM (#12541774)

They're not actually making $250k each. Keep in mind that this includes employer taxes and benefits, which add up very quickly.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by ryandrake on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:22PM (#12541911)

OK, so $200k in salary then. Still stupendously good. WOW!

Maybe there _IS_ something to all these "I know this guy who's brother's roommate makes $300K at Google" threads. It just seems so unbelievable.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by rrdharan on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:32PM (#12542001)

I'm surprised that there remains so much disbelief regarding these figures. There are a plenty of people at large software companies in Silicon Valley who are paid well north of $300k.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Softwar... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Eng...

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by Swizec on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:42PM (#12542084)

Google has thousands of engineers. How many "senior staff software engineers"?

"This estimate is based upon 18 Google Senior Staff Software Engineer salary reports"

"This estimate is based upon 1 Dropbox Engineer salary report"

"This estimate is based upon 1 Facebook Staff Software Engineer salary report"

So we're looking at salaries of 20 engineers. There are how many thousand engineers in the Bay Area?

I don't think your data is statistically significant. I'm not saying these people don't exist. I'm saying they're not as common as these companies would like us to believe.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by ryandrake on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @09:22PM (#12544764)

Yea, I always understood those Super Senior Staff Software Engineer roles at these top companies are for the rare "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" people, not the more common "third average software engineer from the left".

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by vostok on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:50AM (#12546713)

This is an incorrect understanding. I personally know someone at Google who is nowhere near "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" and they make >$300k (but not much more) with just a few years of experience.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by sosborn on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:24PM (#12542488)

From what I've been told, take the employee's salary and multiply by 2 to get the actual cost to the company.

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Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt by softawre on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:25PM (#12543056)

To hire them, maybe. To employ them (after the cost of recruiting), it's more like 30% on top of salary.

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