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	<title>OpenCouchSurfing.org &#187; mismanagement</title>
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		<title>CS 2008 Finances</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I noticed that the CouchSurfing 2008 finances have been updated for the whole year. I whipped up a graph to show where the money goes.

Employee related expenses account for 62.8% of total expenses. In that figure I&#8217;ve included salaries, tax, payroll fees, rent, travel, food, and staff development. Admin expenses includes anything not in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I noticed that the <a title="CouchSurfing International Inc 2008 finances" href="http://www.couchsurfing.com/organization_finances_2008.html" target="_blank">CouchSurfing 2008 finances</a> have been updated for the whole year. I whipped up a graph to show where the money goes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-417" title="cs-financials" src="http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cs-financials.gif" alt="cs-financials" width="500" height="283" /></p>
<p>Employee related expenses account for 62.8% of total expenses. In that figure I&#8217;ve included salaries, tax, payroll fees, rent, travel, food, and staff development. Admin expenses includes anything not in hosting / verification. Hosting is server costs plus telephone / communication. I suspect most of the telephone / communication expenses belong in Employees, but I left it there to be on the safe side. Finally, verification, the source of 99% of the income, costs only 6% of total expenses. I included printing and mailing in the verification cost.</p>
<p>The numbers are:</p>
<p>Employees: $405&#8242;440.59<br />
Admin Expenses: $116&#8242;901.33<br />
Hosting costs: $86&#8242;723.33<br />
Verification: $36&#8242;589.83</p>
<p>It costs more than $400k to staff CS Inc with how many employees? Five? That would be a cost of $80k per person per year.</p>
<p>Hopefully this helps to understand where the money goes.</p>
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