Harmony is experimenting with radical incentives. We aim to onboard thousands of builders and creatives in coming months. How to be capturing everyone's initial enthusiasm while making progress despite coordination inertia?
Whether in startups or DAO – salary negotiations, performance reviews, time commitments are easily the hardest things among humans. Can self-assessed base salary, public timesheets and deliverable reviews, dispute resolutions like quits and kicks, retroactive peer bonus help scale 1000s of development-focused DAOs?
Harmony offers the most generous pays to onboard anyone who is qualified and aligned with our mission. Our culture values productivity over activity – or, more importantly, values meanings of our work making impacts in people's lives rather than work hours. Builders in DAOs as the future of work prefer fluid committment, exploring multiple opportunties and producing work upon passion of the moment. So, we set the maximum productive hours at 20 per week for at-will contributors and at 30 per week for large groups.
| Name | Count | Rate | Hours | Salary | Budget | Committment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 | $55 | 35 | $8,341 | $2.50M | 3-year vesting, no side jobs | |
50 | $65 | 30 | $8,400 | $5.07M | public performance reviews | |
1000 | $75 | 20 | $6,500 | $7.80M | public timesheets, penalty | |
2000 | $110 | 35 | $14,300 | $20.0M | completing bounties | |
100 | $185 | 30 | $24,050 | $10.0M | coordinating for bounties |
- 25 Cores: full-time core leadership team, no other jobs or side projects; 35 hours per week, additional 3-year vesting tokens with 1-year cliff, quarterly performance reviews, bi-annual peer bonus, 4-week mandatory vacation. Minimum pay: $55 per hour, hence $8,341 monthly or $100,100 annually.
- 50 Fellows (contractors managed by Cores): maximum 30 hours per week, or maximum 10 hours per week if employed elsewhere; public tracking of deliverables and mentor's weekly performance reviews, 4 strong-yes to retain after 3 months, monthly employment renewals. Minimum pay: $65 per hour, hence $8,400 monthly or $101,400 annually.
- 1000 Contributors (managed by Basic DAO): maximum 20 hours per week, or maximum 10 hours per week if employed full-time elsewhere; proven skills on Github or social media profiles, pass 3-day paid challenges to onboard, public timesheets for tracking hours and deliverables, weekly peer performance reviews for 50% bonus or penalty, 2 strong-yes to renew monthly. Minimum pay: $75 per hour, hence $6,500 monthly or $78,000 annually.
- 2100 Hunters & Masters (managed by Bounty DAO): $10K-$200K bounty rewards, small teams of 1-3 persons engaging over 3-12 weeks. Effective hourly rates: $110 on the low-bounty hunters (usually a team of 1) to $185 for the high-bounty hunters (usually a team of 2 or 3 people), hence $14,300-$24,050 monthly or $171,600-$288,600 annually.
Builders & Creatives Wanted
Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. - Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer (via Messari)
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