Here's what my YTD pay has been via BTS from the fuzzy.beyondbitcoin delegate.
Please note that the first payout (including some back pay) was on March 26, 2015 in the amount of 40,000 BTS and I was slated to receive future pay outs of 5,900 BTS/wk thereafter. After the fourth BTS payment was made to me, I elected to donate 12.5% of my future payouts to help support Datasecuritynode and the MineBitshares project. That donation worked out to be 737.5 BTS/wk.
So far the YTD breakdown is as follows...
40,000 BTS = Initial pay out
23,600 BTS = 4 weeks’ pay @ 5,900/wk (pre-donation)
129,062.5 BTS = 25 weeks of pay @ 5162.50/wk (post-donation)
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192,562.50 BTS Total paid to emailtooaj
18,437.5 BTS = 25 weekly donations of 737.50 to MineBitshares
Grand Total payout of 211,000 BTS
Though I can't recall the exact number, I used some of my delegate funds to help the Moonstone wallet project and recently sent 1,000 BTS to Clayop in helping to support the stress test/tx flood on the 2.0 test network.
Otherwise, I've held onto every other BTS in my wallet. Any actual USD ($) that I’ve spent out of pocket includes various DAW plug-ins, music making software, sound samples and voice recording equipment. ATM I don’t recall the actual totals that I’ve spent? If this is critical, needed info, I certainly will research my bank records to get you answers but, if I had to guess off the top of my head, it was approximately around $200-250 USD total.
So that was the income/expense portion of this post… now trying to figuring out how best to classify my role within Beyond Bitcoin and possibly calculate what a “fair pay” could, or should be, is a bit trickier!
Reason is this, technically I do both Audio Editing and Final Audio Mastering of the BB Hangouts. In a real world “Studio” environment, this work is typically done by two separate people with different talents, while the Final Audio Mastering work to be considered the more “experienced” or prestigious role, hence the one who makes more salary. Like I just mentioned, I’m doing both of these jobs myself.
With that in mind, I’ll try wrapping this into a somewhat, consolidated established baseline, so we can clearly see and make some comparisons from. Since I currently live in the U.S. and I have U.S. living expenses; I'm going to work calculations from what a "newbie" or low to NO experience starting position would pay out for this line of work located here in the USA, aka… bottom of the barrel.
For this line of work, the entry level job is averaged on the low end at around $32,000 per yr. which can be verified here (the actual avg. Median is $43,992/yr)...
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Audio_Engineer/SalaryWith a yearly salary of $32,000/yr.(USD) this would break down as follows...
$2,666.66/mo or
$615.38/wk or $15.38/hr (based on 40hr. work week)
So based on a $15.38/hr rate... I typically spend minimum, an average of 8+ hours per week working for Beyond Bitcoin in regards of the editing and processing of Hangouts, among various other tasks.
With these figures in mind, I "should be" paid fairly a minimum of $123.07 per week, based on 8 hours of work.
Now, if we take the current BTS value of $0.006 USD (or roughly 2,400 satoshi, which is higher than previous months), then I have been paid from the Beyond Bitcoin delegate a total of $1,266.60 USD Y.T.D. (total of 30 weekly payouts) of which $110.625 USD was donated to MineBitshares as explained earlier. So $1,266.60 minus $110.625 equals $1,155.95 for 30 weeks and that breaks down to $38.53 per week, about a 69% decrease from the minimum market rate here in the U.S.
OR, if I didn’t donate a percentage of my portion to minebitshares… then a 65% decrease from minimum.
I hope you can clearly see that I, among the rest of Beyond Bitcoin have donated A LOT of time, while getting paid WAY under market value for similar positions!
Also, as a personal side note, I’ve edited some 100+ Hangouts… the Beyond Bitcoin delegate has only “compensated” for 30!
So please don’t be foolish thinking that we’re rolling in the dough and taking advantage of our community!!
So there you have it!
I sincerely respect your opinions and hope everyone has enjoyed the professional work Beyond Bitcoin has done for our community!
Peace!
emailtooaj