2008 Budget Information [Archived]
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| Personnel | $5,707,134 |
|---|---|
| Salaries and Employee Benefits* | $5,707,134 |
| Operations | $1,848,480 |
| — | — |
| Communications | $784,001 |
| Software & Equipment Support and Licenses | $225,855 |
| Depreciation | $838,624 |
| General Office and Administration | $4,355,225 |
| — | — |
| Professional Fees/Outreach | $724,398 |
| Contingency | $122,000 |
| General Office | $364,294 |
| Bad Debt Expense | $359,667 |
| Legal Fees | $500,000 |
| Legal Defense Fund | $225,000 |
| Members Meetings | $312,927 |
| Merit/NANOG Meeting Webcast Support | $50,000 |
| Rent & Occupancy | $381,590 |
| Travel** | $1,315,349 |
| Internet Support | $438,223 |
| — | — |
| Funds committed to ICANN in escrow | $247,723 |
| Internet Research and Support | $164,500 |
| NRO Expenses | $26,000 |
| Total 2008 Expenses | $12,349,062 |
| — | — |
| Total 2008 Revenues | $12,259,680 |
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* Employee benefits consists of comprehensive and holiday leave, health insurance, 401K plan expenses, payroll taxes, training and education, employee functions, dental, vision, and life insurance, and hiring costs.
**Travel performed by ARIN Board of Trustees, ARIN Advisory Council and ARIN Staff.
Budget Explanation
Personnel
ARIN has 47 FTE’s budgeted for 2008 increasing personnel in support of Engineering, Outreach and Internet Governance. Increases also reflect ARIN’s effort to remain competitive with regarding to benefits and salary, while competing with high tech, for profit, organizations in Northern Virginia.
Operations
ARIN will be increasing services, updating infrastructure, and improving service redundancy in 2008. This includes a new collocation site and emergency disaster recovery capabilities supported by new hardware, software and connectivity.
General Office and Administration
Increases for 2008 occur primarily in three areas. First, ARIN’s plans increased outsourcing for quality assurance testing in Engineering in order to improve quality.
Second, ARIN expects a continued growth in legal expenditures consistent with trends for prior years. Lastly outreach efforts related to promoting process participation and IPv6 are expected to continue including travel and related expenses.
Internet Support
Consistent with ARIN’s mission funding NANOG meeting broadcasts, registry support, NRO activities, and the RFC editor as well as funding internet related research through organizations such as CAIDA is essential and reflects increases in this category.
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