I worked out how many hours it was a while ago (when the con was somewhat smaller than it is now) and came up with 10,000 hours (that was one person at 2000, a dozen at 250, fifty at 50, and two hundred at 12). These days being con chair takes only 1000 hours, but Programming now takes 2000 (usually split between two people) and Ben Levy puts in 2000 on whatever jobs he takes as well. The core group is a little bigger and maybe works a little harder. The next tiers are quite a bit bigger, probably by 50%. And we've got enough 4-8 hour volunteers now that it makes a difference to count them correctly. We're probably up over 15,000 hours, maybe 20,000. Certainly plenty of folks on staff bill at $65 (let alone $50) an hour, but I have a hard time believing the average is anywhere near that.
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I worked out how many hours it was a while ago (when the con was somewhat smaller than it is now) and came up with 10,000 hours (that was one person at 2000, a dozen at 250, fifty at 50, and two hundred at 12). These days being con chair takes only 1000 hours, but Programming now takes 2000 (usually split between two people) and Ben Levy puts in 2000 on whatever jobs he takes as well. The core group is a little bigger and maybe works a little harder. The next tiers are quite a bit bigger, probably by 50%. And we've got enough 4-8 hour volunteers now that it makes a difference to count them correctly. We're probably up over 15,000 hours, maybe 20,000. Certainly plenty of folks on staff bill at $65 (let alone $50) an hour, but I have a hard time believing the average is anywhere near that.