Their lead developer is paid $72k/yr, and mobile developer $49k/yr.
replyI'm not sure what to think, but that's definitely interesting. I wonder what chess.com is paying their engineers.
Can you explain what is interesting in those salaries?
replyThey are extremely low (at least by the standard of Software Engineers based in the US)
replyLichess is a non profit from France (like it’s author) and those salaries quite normal for France.
replyNo it is not. Yes it could be for your average everyday developer but if someone can run site with millions of active users alone, there is no difference in salary based on where the developer stays. Does Mistral pays $100k salary to researchers?
replyCould be part time
replyOr full time. In some countries, those are pretty decent salaries. I earn €50k in one of the poorer European countries and that puts me in the top ~8%.
replyI thought so too, but another entry in their sheet is "Sysadmin (part time)" for $18k/yr. So either they forgot to put part time in parens, or they're paid full time wages. I wonder which...
reply100%. Beautiful property. Thank you, Lichess, for everything you do.
replyIt's truly phenomenal.
replyEven my diamond platinum extreme chess.com subscription (or however the third-best tier of a dozen or so is called) has much less functionality than Lichess's only tier.
Quite amazing to see that "French social security / pension contrib" are almost the same as their total server costs, and there is loads of them.
replyWith just a few employees, it is quite interesting to compare how much do some of these contributions cost, effectively affecting only a person or two, compared to a service like Lichess which is used by 5-10 million of users each month.