Poll: As a founder, what is your salary(2016)?

9 points·chirau··7 comments

If you can, please also add location, number of people in your company, age of company and if you are funded

$25 last month, $0 this month.

Founded in Malaysia, a year old. Three employees including me and my cofounder, and our operations executive who takes no equity.

Funded $2500. Profitable but screw bootstrapping.

Do you live off savings?

Yeah, but I do software development on the side. Inflation really hit hard over the last 10 years (like living costs practically doubled), so savings don't go very far.

Wow. What is a typical industry salary for your role in Malaysia?

Probably a lot more lol. For a founder of a non-profitable seed-stage startup, it's around $700/month. If you take a government grant, it's closer to $350/month + your tech skill market rate.

Around these parts, it's quite rare for a founder to be full time on investor-funded salaries. Founders are expected to have a full time job, and pay a technical guy on the side.

By comparison, a good engineer (3y, non-elite degree) would make about $1500/month.

My main side project made me about $1700 last month. It earns from ads from a international user base. I work alone on the project, and did exactly nothing the whole month.

Its not funded and initial costs are just time, running costs about $30.

$0.

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