<story><title>Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compsciphd</author><text>What does mozilla spend money on outside of personal costs?&lt;p&gt;Mozilla had approximately 1000 employees.  If they are grossing 450M a year in revenue and 50% of their expenses are personal costs, tht means on average they are spending 225K per employee.  for a non profit (even if its a non profit in the tech field and has to compete with tech firms for employees), that seems high.  i.e. if one would compare them to Series A or B startups in SV, those would be reasonably high compensation packages (albiet without the stock option upside, but most stock options aren&amp;#x27;t worth the paper they are printed on, even for series A companies perhaps a bit more likelihood with series B).&lt;p&gt;Even if one says its 33%, that&amp;#x27;s still 150K per average employee expense.  while that wouldn&amp;#x27;t result in a great SV salary, its would probably be competitive in most of the world.&lt;p&gt;just trying to understand where all the money goes?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stagger87</author><text>Mozilla provides financial statements as recent as 2018 which will answer some of your questions.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assets.mozilla.net&amp;#x2F;annualreport&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;mozilla-fdn-2018-short-form-final-0926.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assets.mozilla.net&amp;#x2F;annualreport&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;mozilla-fdn-201...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See page 5 for expenses.&lt;p&gt;There are several comments here about Mozilla needing to save cash. The balance sheet as of 2018 shows 100+ million in cash assets.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compsciphd</author><text>What does mozilla spend money on outside of personal costs?&lt;p&gt;Mozilla had approximately 1000 employees.  If they are grossing 450M a year in revenue and 50% of their expenses are personal costs, tht means on average they are spending 225K per employee.  for a non profit (even if its a non profit in the tech field and has to compete with tech firms for employees), that seems high.  i.e. if one would compare them to Series A or B startups in SV, those would be reasonably high compensation packages (albiet without the stock option upside, but most stock options aren&amp;#x27;t worth the paper they are printed on, even for series A companies perhaps a bit more likelihood with series B).&lt;p&gt;Even if one says its 33%, that&amp;#x27;s still 150K per average employee expense.  while that wouldn&amp;#x27;t result in a great SV salary, its would probably be competitive in most of the world.&lt;p&gt;just trying to understand where all the money goes?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>Why do you think non-profits should pay lower salaries than for-profits? It&amp;#x27;s good for the world if non-profits can compete with corporations as they tend to act more ethically. Also, from a macro-economic point of view, wages are one of the best things a company can spend it&amp;#x27;s money on.</text></comment>