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://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm</a>
[2] <a href="http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-cost.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-...</a>