Erik Moeller, 30/11/2011 07:03:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nathan wrote:
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- The budget includes a whopping $14 million on staffing costs (at the
planned 117 number of staff, that is nearly $120k per staff member)
The 2010-11 staffing budget is $13.3M. [5] Staffing costs include payroll taxes, recruiting costs, and benefits, and of course pay bands for different roles vary significantly, but are consistent with similar non-profit organizations, i.e. below the market rate paid at for-profit companies.
More background about the guiding principles of Wikimedia's compensation practices can be found in [7].
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[7]
Thank you for mentioning this (and thanks to people who worked on it too), I found it very interesting. What I don't understand, especially given the nature of the WMF staff (at large), is that there is no mention at all of international differences; I heard that they're somehow taken care of, but it would be very nice to have them briefly documented. As it is, this document would seem to be only about San-Francisco indefinite employees. For instance: «benefits package for all staff, which includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance» doesn't apply to non-USA based staffers, I guess (they might not even need one), but it's not said what happens to them; «Staff receive an annual vacation allotment, which ranges from 5-20 working days», but no mention of whether this is adjusted to local vacation/public holidays laws; there's nothing about notice periods for termination or non-renewal of contracts (another thing which varies a lot across countries).
Nemo
P.s.: I hope you'll be forgiving of my English terminology mistakes.