So one of your top-performing products almost pays the salary of a single developer? They’re not investing into any of it because none of it is actually profitable. It’s literally not worth putting more time into that bucket vs actually trying to make something people want.
Right, 200k is ~16.6k per month or 500 dollars per day of rev, not even profit.
For most normal businesses this would support a lifestyle/single person type of shop tops, but essentially this would be considered either the very start or a complete dead end for any business with multiple people involved.
It sounds like the OP has some chops and definitely needs to find an org where their skills are more needed.
In the USA a fully loaded cost of a not-fresh-out-of-school developer today is very likely >$200k. You have to factor in benefits, insurance, equipment, licensing (Windows, GitHub, all the AI subscriptions, etc), space (RTO!), any stock, and taxes to get the fully loaded cost.
Roughly salary times 1.5-2 is a good ballpark depending on ___location and equipment/licensing needs.
IME Most of the good devs in India cost at least 20k USD, with the price going up based on seniority and definitely skillsets, a very sought after skill can still ratchet up costs - but even then we're talking something that is going to run 3 devs tops and not have a lot of room for additional investment - something has to be taken out of the system for someone to care at all about running it.
