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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by bee_rider on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:10AM (#46602930)
How many people would 15,000 EUR employ in your area? That’s significantly below a living wage for one person in the US…

Maybe an incredibly lean organization could make it with 150,000 EUR? All digital, 3-4 really devoted employees.

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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by embedding-shape on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:23AM (#46603120)
> How many people would 15,000 EUR employ in your area?

3-4 people easily, probably closer to 5-6 in reality. Minimum salary in my country is around 1200 EUR/month, but we also have free health care for everyone and other anti-democratic things.

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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by bee_rider on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#46603398)
Ah, I had a brain-fart, was thinking yearly instead of monthly. Sorry!
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