6.4K is average for a team that can deliver on time, not for a team that delivered a dev project more than 2 years late. DCG leadership that does not respond to constructive questions in the funding proposals by remaining silent - keeping everyone else in the dark - except for a controlled, orchestrated quarterly call that has nothing to do with debating the proposals funding. DCG Ryan Taylor who we hardly ever see representing DASH and if we do it looks like he is working out of a broom cupboard. Ryan, I suggest you invest in get some media trained and learn how to put up a basic studio for taking calls.
It's easy for me to criticises? Really? When month after month I'm asking constructive questions and either being ignored by your leadership or getting half backed answers that don't fully answer the questions asked. No DCG leadership is above answering questions about our funding proposals. We don't need to. We're the DCG. We can do whatever we want and we know that nobody is going to question us. Let's just stay quiet and wait for people to vote us in as they always do. No question, no responses. That is just pure arrogance to the nth degree.
6.4 K in Eastern European countries is like royalty. The average wage in places like Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Russia is only around 500 Euros a month. Obviously developers would be made paid more in these countries but 6.4 k in those countries is more than "average" as you say. It is way over the top.
You know, I don't have a problem with paying 6.4k / month for developers. What I have problem with is paying 6.4k when DCG are 2 years late and do not answer intelligent, constructive questions in their funding proposals. For those reasons I say it is not worth 6.4k / month per developer.
And in terms of motivation if you say people are not motivated unless they get 6.4k then I say whoever is managing the team is doing a poor job because a REAL developer is not motivated by money. They are motivated by their contribution to a cause that can improve the lives of people that desperately need this technology. I would not hire any dev that is working just for the money because their motivation is not what we want in a project like this.
There is no escaping the fact. 2 years late (and counting) for delivering a feature such as Evolution shows there is something DRASTICALLY wrong with DCG dev management. The Agile process itself has a whole section on estimating. Clearly DCG need to take a look again at that module.
By the way, the current DASH price is 58 USD and falling. If DCG had delivered on time we would not be in this situation.