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Your overall point still stands, but FWIW Wikimedia pays less than its peers. To compare two active listings

Senior Security Engineer at Mozilla (https://boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/5803609): $124,000 to $199,000 plus bonus

Senior Security Engineer at Wikimedia (https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/5890112): $105,000 to $164,000




The rule of thumb is that employees cost the company double what they pay the employee. So, still hundreds of thousands per employee.




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