“On average the cost to 80,000 Hours of a significant plan change is £1,667.”
80,000 Hours’ average cost per plan change this year was more like £300. It’s a good example of increasing returns to scale/quality being a more important factor than shrinking opportunities—the marginal cost is way lower than the long term average.
The cost of getting an extra plan change by running additional workshops is about the same, which suggests the short term marginal is about the same as the short-term average.
80,000 Hours’ average cost per plan change this year was more like £300.
Yeah, I was looking for this year’s numbers because I figured it would have gone below £1000. But that’s impressively low, damn. One more point to economies of scale.
The cost of getting an extra plan change by running additional workshops is about the same, which suggests the short term marginal is about the same as the short-term average.
The online career guide and workshop keep getting better, and we’ve become more skilled at promoting them. The fixed costs of producing it all are now spread over a much larger number of readers (~1 million a year).
80,000 Hours’ average cost per plan change this year was more like £300.
Approximately what is that £300 spent on? Is it staff time, and if so what is most of that staff time spent on? Talking to individuals and persuading them? Researching what careers would work for them and telling them? Or something competely different?
“On average the cost to 80,000 Hours of a significant plan change is £1,667.”
80,000 Hours’ average cost per plan change this year was more like £300. It’s a good example of increasing returns to scale/quality being a more important factor than shrinking opportunities—the marginal cost is way lower than the long term average.
The cost of getting an extra plan change by running additional workshops is about the same, which suggests the short term marginal is about the same as the short-term average.
Yeah, I was looking for this year’s numbers because I figured it would have gone below £1000. But that’s impressively low, damn. One more point to economies of scale.
What drove the improvement to £300?
The online career guide and workshop keep getting better, and we’ve become more skilled at promoting them. The fixed costs of producing it all are now spread over a much larger number of readers (~1 million a year).
Approximately what is that £300 spent on? Is it staff time, and if so what is most of that staff time spent on? Talking to individuals and persuading them? Researching what careers would work for them and telling them? Or something competely different?