>>12679259SpaceX employs 8000 people with avg pay of ~60K that's 480M in employee pay per year.
Starlink sat + launch costs spacex ~30 million, as per spacex talks. They launched 14 starlink in 2020. That's 30 million x 14 = 420 million.
Thats close to a billion in 2020 with just employees and starlink launch costs. There's also recurrent facility maintenance/rent/utility costs that would probably be close to $100M-$300M. Then there's R/D money for Starship/Starlink/Raptors, tooling money for all their tools, money for all the 50+ Raptor engines, etc.
They don't bring in much money. Starlink wont get their full return back for years. Starship money wont be recouped for few years. Musk said Starship R/D would costs ~2-10 billion. Starlink would costs another similar level of investments. The money they would make back would be years away. For now, they're bleeding.
