It doesn't answer your question directly but I used the following rule of thumb in the past.
I expected that for each member that was put in the field the project spent ~4 million dollars.
~1 mil for recruitment, psychological testing and "dissapearing" the person (with more than 9 out of 10 prospects being rejected)
~1 mil for training person (including the costs of building/maintaining and keeping secret the facilities)
~1 mil for the bolthole construction and equipment per person
~1 mil for the caches construction and equipment per person
This means a 10,000 person project means 40 billion dollars being redirected without being noticed by anyone. I have designed projects bigger than that but the risks of being discovered are higher. I usually would start thinking about government involvement after that point.
PS welcome aboard.
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