# Quantifying moderators work and reward methodology
Moderators earn bounties in 2 ways.
## 1. Fixed Pay: Retainer Fee (20%)
## 2. Variable Pay: Based on community Engagement in following discord channels (80%)
a. Onboarding & Help
b. Community & Soci al
c. Tech & Discussion
d. Dev

## 1. Fixed pay – Retainer Fee:
A retainer fee will be paid upfront to secure the services of moderators.
20% of the bounties allocated for a weeks work, will be distributed equally among all the moderators signed up for the role.
All the moderator roles (Onboarding & help, community & social, Tech & Discussion and Dev) are clubbed into a single role, since there is good coordination among all the moderators and everyone is able to handle all the moderator roles. So all the moderators bounties are clubbed together and retainer fee will be equal for all.


Available retainer fee (i.e. 1600) will be shared equally among the moderators.
Right now there are 8 moderators (_jt_, drawks, Jack Lin, m0ot, nour_space, Saturn, Wade |The Passive Trust, Zdong, Daniyal). (1600/8 = 200). Each Moderator will receive 200 coins as retainer fee/week.
Note: McErebos will be contributing as moderator on pro-bono basis, since he is a validator and he decided to forego his bounties.

## 2. Variable Pay:
Variable pay is based on moderators engagement in each discord channel per day. Variable pay is calculated for each channel separately.

For each channel, remaining weekly bounty (i.e. 1600) is distributed across 7 days (1600/7= 228.57 rewards/day) and that 228.57 will be equally shared by number of moderators engaged in the channel irrespective of how many posts they engage.

If there a no engagement in a day, then the allocated reward for that day (228.57) will be added to retainer fee and distributed equally among all the moderators.

(Example scenario: If there are 20 engagements in total in a channel and lets say “Moderator-A” engaged in 14, and “Moderator-B” engaged in 4 and “Moderator-C” engaged in 2, all three moderators (A,B & C) will share the available bounty equally (i.e. 228.57/3=76.19). So in this case each person gets 76.19 bounty/day.)

## Some sample calculations:

## Now, why is the bounties not being distributed based on % of engagement by the moderator?
For example, same scenario as above: “Moderator-A” is engaged in 70% of the available engagement, so “A” should receive 70% (160 coins) of the available daily reward, B should receive 20% (45.71 coins) and “C” should receive 10% (22.85 coins).
We are not adopting this, because based on reviewing chats from the beginning, this method is not fair to everyone.
On several occasions, when “A” is available for engaging, there might be enough posts engage, so “A” gets to engage in 70% of posts, but when “B” & “C” are available to engage, there are not enough posts to engage even though they are available. Now paying only 20% to B and 10% to “C” is unfair. So we are dropping this.

needs to be updated based on new circulating supply