Their lead developer is paid $72k/yr, and mobile developer $49k/yr.

I'm not sure what to think, but that's definitely interesting. I wonder what chess.com is paying their engineers.

tumdum_ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Can you explain what is interesting in those salaries?

They are extremely low (at least by the standard of Software Engineers based in the US)

	▲	tumdum_ 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Lichess is a non profit from France (like it’s author) and those salaries quite normal for France.

sebmellen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Could be part time

	▲	static_motion an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Or 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%.
	▲	sillysaurusx 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I 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...