ZCom Finances

We have a staff of five. Each employee earns the same take home monthly salary of $2800. But staff costs for an operation like ZCom go well beyond that because of diverse taxes, health insurance, and upkeep costs associated with staff, accounting, materials, etc. as well as electricity, heat, etc.

Salary with all taxes and health insurance plus various bank charges and accounting are $365,000 a year

Rent and utilities and associated housing and diverse other upkeep related costs are about $60,000

In this box we also include computer maintanence and purchase - which is way more than it ought to be - at about $10,000

Diverse additional office supply costs are $15,000

The total "basic expenses," very rough and rounded off, are $450,000.

Another set of costs correlates largely to product output.

There is paying creators (writers and artists), costs of printing and video manufacturing, costs of delivery and all kinds of mail and promotion. This sums to roughly $200,000

There are ZMI deficits and ancillary trips and events we relate to, $30,000

There are costs of the online operations including bandwidth, servers, and programming as well as online fees for materials, etc.: $100,000

A rough total figure is: $330,000