No worries, I can understand the curiosity :) I told @k00b about your initial question and he said that he doesn't like to hide information since not hiding it makes us more accountable. Then he answered and I added my view.

Since I also think people should be more open regarding this, here is my answer - but first, some context:

Before joining SN, I have been working for almost 3 years at abusix, a software company with the mission of "fighting network abuse on a global scale" as a working student. My focus was on writing parsers for abuse reports + tooling. As a working student, I can only work up to 20 hours per week. My last pay rate was €18/h. I started there at €14/h and they increased it by 2€ every year based on my work and the experience and responsibility that I gained.

Now to my current compensation:

My compensation at SN is now $25/h and I work 20 hours per week so this was quite an upgrade. I basically earn 38% more now. Also, @k00b mentioned that he is always open to discuss compensation unlike my previous employer.

But my main reason to switch was that abusix has gotten quite large during my time. Tobias Knecht the CEO called it "growing pains". I missed the days where we still had an office and him and me would just chat randomly about anything including how abusix started as 3 lines of bash. These reasons and that I always wanted to work in open source and bitcoin lead me to switch positions. Additionally, I never liked social media in it's prevalent form but saw SN as a model to disrupt social media and become a part of it. So after some initial hesitation (I got really comfortable at abusix), it became a no-brainer and I took the leap :)