At the risk of further flattening a dead horse, I'd like to get this on record on the forum. This is a G+ post from Fred Hicks, who runs Evil Hat Productions (responsible for the Fate system and several of the better games that use it).
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Originally Posted by Fred Hicks on G+
Living the Dream by the numbers.
DriveThru netted us around $42k over the 12 months from December 1st 2013 to November 30th 2014. (This seems relevant given recent speculation by third parties.) Sidebar: That means we made DriveThru about $21k in that same timeframe, aka $1750/mo, aka, roughly equivalent to a $10/hour full-time job with no benefits (assuming 20-21 workdays in a month).
In that same timeframe Evil Hat grossed about $598k from all sources. So DriveThru's revenue represents 7% of that. Stack that $598k against company expenses of about $450k in that timeframe (shipping was about 20% of that to the extent it was tracked as shipping; printing & manufacture about 1/3rd).
That means Evil Hat's net profit in that 12-month timeframe is about $150k, but the vast majority of that money is earmarked for spending on projects that haven't been released yet.
As far as how I'm doing, personally, within all that:
After about 8 years of working at this job, at least half of which were without any pay whatsoever, followed by a couple years of very minimal pay, I'm finally within the last year or so making just shy of what my salary was in 1996 (18 years ago) as an entry-level customer service rep for a website hosting company — without any of the benefits that came along with that CS job, like a 401k or healthcare.
It would not have been possible to get to that point without my wife's job (salary and benefits) supporting me and my family.
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