Z costs and revenues are not particularly complicated.
There are infrastructure costs, typically called fixed costs, that are rooted in basic existence. We have a staff of three and a half which requires not only salary but diverse taxes, health insurance, and upkeep costs associated with staff, materials, etc. as well as rent, electricity, heat, etc. There is also accounting, computer maintenance, office supplies, etc. The projection you see here includes reducing the salaries of Lydia Sargent and Michael Albert each by 50%…for cost savings. This is not preferred, but necessary.
Then there are costs of operations each month, which depend on scale – and on what is being done, of course. These correlate largely to product output. Here we have paying creators, costs of printing Z Magazine and video manufacturing, costs of delivery and all kinds of mail and promotion. Here too are ZMI deficits and ancillary political trips and events we relate to and costs of the online operations including bandwidth, servers, and programming as well as online fees for materials, etc. These numbers take into account cuts due to creating a new web system, etc.
On the revenue side we have revenues from Z subscriptions, video, book, and other sales. And then, critically, we also have Sustainer and One Time Donor revenues, plus,, and this is new, revenues from external labor and donations.
Here is a summary of monthly projections for the coming year, after various cuts, etc. Of course, things will vary somewhat…
Income per month on average
Sustainer Donations – $15,000
Quarterly Fund Raising – $5,000
Z Magazine Subs – $5,500
DVDs Books – $ 500
Services to Telesur – $5,000
Extra Donations – $3,000
Total: $34,000
Costs per month on average
Salaries – $12,000
Health Insurance – $ 5,000
Rent – $ 2,500
Utilities / Internet – $ 1,000
ZMag Production – $ 5,000
Delivery… – $ 2,000
Fees/Contents – $ 1,000
Web Maintanence – $ 1,500
Transaction Costs – $ 2,000
Accounting – $ 750
Supplies, Computers… $ 750
Total: $33,500