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Ribaudo pointed out that Zhu asks companies for donations and spreads awareness about Babel at conferences and company events. And the issue isn t Zhu s salary, Ribaudo said, but Babel s lack of funds to pay the whole team. This is not Henry s fault, Ribaudo said. The problem wasn t that he was being paid more. The problem was we didn t have enough money to pay core contributors the same amount.
Right now, maintainers Zhu, Ribaudo, and Huáng Jùnliàng make $6,000 a month. This adds up to $72,000 a year to work full time in maintaining a project that thousands of companies rely on which is on the far low end of the average entry-level-developer salary.