I was looking at wikimedia's projected spending for current financial year and was quite surprised to see it is $28.3 Million. I have uploaded a screenshot here:<p>http://i.imgur.com/WvBlY.png<p>Original here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/37/2011-12_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE_.pdf<p>I understand the server/bandwidth cost, but thats quite low as compared to the total spending for the year. I can't find any details on each type of spending... e.g. $13.3 Mil on employee wages alone, how many employees? What salaries?<p>I trust HN that somebody here would know better. Can somebody help me understand what are the expenses, considering its a non-profit org after all?
From the PDF: "We expect to end the year with staff of 78" Which means people are receiving crazy high salaries. They spent $1.6MM on travel which seems crazy to me. Where is all this money going?<p>Almost 26% of the staff is admin/management (20/78) which also seems very high.
Just a comparison, Mozilla Foundation spent 62.8 million US dollars for software development, unclear for how much is spent on staff.<p>ref: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2010/faq/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2010/fa...</a>
Note for others: the numbers are USDs in thousands.
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The same document says "In 2011-12, we plan to grow staff 50% from 78 to 117", so the salary turns out to be $114k