Ribaudo pointed out that Zhu asks companies for donations and spreads awareness about Babel at conferences and company events. And the issue isn't Zhu's salary, Ribaudo said, but Babel's lack of funds to pay the whole team. "This is not Henry's fault," Ribaudo said. "The problem wasn't that he was being paid more. The problem was we didn't have enough money to pay core contributors the same amount." Right now, maintainers Zhu, Ribaudo, and Huáng Jùnliàng make $6,000 a month. This adds up to $72,000 a year to work full time in maintaining a project that thousands of companies rely on — which is on the far low end of the average entry-level-developer salary.