How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
$290k per month is $3.5M per year.<p>A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k.<p>This means that according to this estimation, Spotify pays for 20 Google software engineers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salary&#x2F;Google-Salaries-E9079.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salary&#x2F;Google-Salaries-E9079.htm</a>
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