Talk:2012 Developer budget

£20/hr for a sysadmin sounds like a lot. That equates to a FTE salary of about £40k. I know you pay a premium for part-time, especially with unpredictable hours, but are sysadmins really that expensive? It's not like we need someone with lots of experience, they would just be running a couple of servers for us. I've always felt that getting a full-time general tech person is the way to go. That way you always have someone when you need them and they can easily do quick tech jobs for any initiatives that need them (eg. need a quick website throwing together, need some AV equipment set up for an event, etc.). They can do mediawiki development in any spare time, so they wouldn't be sitting around twiddling their thumbs. You don't need to have all that much more than 10 hours a week before it becomes cheaper to go full-time, especially if you're ending up with more than one person (remember, things like payroll and other HR costs tend to be fixed per person, rather than per hour worked). --Tango 00:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)