WMF salary costs have increased further since 2019. The 2020/21 financial statements[5] released earlier this month gave a "Salaries and wages" figure of $67,857,676, an increase of 22% over the year prior.
Assuming a total of around 300 employees for that year, based on the number of employees shown in this April 2021 archive of the Staff and Contractors page,[6] I estimate the annual cost per WMF employee is now around $225K (I'm happy to be corrected on this if any of my figures or assumptions should turn out to be mistaken).
Contractors (176 listed on the current WMF staff and contractors page[7]) are somewhat cheaper, of course.
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Hello Andreas,
The Staff and Contractors page ( https://archive.today/rFGMv
) states there is more than 450 persons. That page is no more
updated in a timely fashion and some employees are explicitly not
listed on that page for a variety of reasons. I think we can just
not keep up updating all our employees lists and that page is
lagging a bit.
As I get it from internal lists, the foundation is nearing 600 employees and contractors (and we have five people starting today).
The form 990 has employee count based on the calendar year (291 from January 1st 2019 to December 30th 2019) while the expenses would be reported based on the fiscal year (July 1st 2019 to June 30 2020). If we got a few dozens of people hired in the first part of 2020 they are not shown in the head count but do reflect in the expense line yet. Finance and or HR at the foundation would be able to address your question.
I am entirely sure we are not making $190k per year on average nor $225k, those would be the total compensation / cost for the c levels or of the very top compensated persons (they are listed in the form 990 and also listed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries .
Antoine "hashar" Musso