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We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

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[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Is it just me or is $19 million per year for 50 full-time employees insane?

Even for US salary standards.

[–] Jellewho@beehaw.org 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

For the current distribution I quote from the linked source :

Current Infrastructure Costs (as of November 2023): Approximately $14 million dollars per year.

  • Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year.
  • Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year.
  • Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.
  • Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year.
  • Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.
[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but I was talking about the salary part, which is separate from the costs you mentioned.

It's 19 million just for people.

[–] Jellewho@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Yhea no worries, I was just trying to get all the budgets together. I agree it seems quite an high budget

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