I’d argue that if they would pay their employees a competitive for-profit salary in this case, the employee’s share of the input is 0. Maybe they aren’t motivated by impact, that’s why they took the full salary. They just “do their job” and produce value for their employer.
I’d push back on this. Maybe the career choice (decision to do the job at the given market rate instead of doing something else) of N employees on the market allows achieving the current total production at $2X total cost instead of, say $3X, if it was fully up to the market. (The decisions shifting the supply curve upwards so the market can buy more production at a given price)
In that case, the total funding required is $X less, so on average $X/N for each impact focused employee. For comparison, if the market consists of, say, another N impact agnostic employees (2N employees total), then the individual market rate salary was also $X/N. (Average funding need reduction comparable to the market salary.)
Now, the above numbers are obviously arbitrary, but I think this illustrates the effect that I (we?) hope to have from direct work.
I’d push back on this. Maybe the career choice (decision to do the job at the given market rate instead of doing something else) of N employees on the market allows achieving the current total production at $2X total cost instead of, say $3X, if it was fully up to the market. (The decisions shifting the supply curve upwards so the market can buy more production at a given price)
In that case, the total funding required is $X less, so on average $X/N for each impact focused employee. For comparison, if the market consists of, say, another N impact agnostic employees (2N employees total), then the individual market rate salary was also $X/N. (Average funding need reduction comparable to the market salary.)
Now, the above numbers are obviously arbitrary, but I think this illustrates the effect that I (we?) hope to have from direct work.