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SCP-3326 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3326
Expected annual
$3.6M
One-time setup
$4.4M
Annual recurring
$3.5M
Personnel
15
Initial capital/setup is dominated by site acquisition, bespoke temporal engineering (XACTS) and secure vault/IT buildouts, with a one-time estimate of roughly $4.41M. Recurring annual costs are driven primarily by specialized personnel payroll, on-call MTF operations and research/monitoring, totaling about $3.53M/year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.4M
Facilities $1.4M
[#1, #2, #3, #6, #11] Site acquisition, Provisional Research Station 36 build-out, perimeter fence and vehicle barriers, containment chamber structural modifications, and vault build/HVAC (vault build + HVAC combined).
Equipment $1.4M
[#4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10, #21] Initial surveillance system, secure access control hardware, digital clocks (T-3326-1/T-3326-2), XACTS device procurement/engineering, Hume detection equipment, redundant UPS/generator install, and classified on-site servers/hardened IT.
Insurance Reserve $1.1M
[#23] Recommended contingency/catastrophe reserve fund to cover large unexpected events, emergency relocation, mass-amnestics or major buyouts.
Decommissioning $275K
[#30] Secure demolition, site remediation and deep-archive transfer at end-of-life.
Legal Cover Initial $55K
[#20] Initial legal/setup costs for cover identities, fake business registrations, NDAs and local authority liaison buyouts.
Amnestics Initial Cache $55K
[#18] Initial Class-A amnestics procurement and secure storage cache.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $38K
[#11, #12, #15] Initial cataloging intake and forensic document digitization/copying, plus initial training program/course setup for RCT-Δt briefings.
Social Media Initial $28K
[#19] Initial civilian cleanup and content removal/PR operations (initial takedown/legal cleanup).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.5M/yr
Mtf On Call $1.2M/yr
[#14] On-call MTF-Zeta-10 operational costs (salaries, hazard pay, equipment, training, travel and per-operation allowances).
Staff Wages $1.1M/yr
[#13, #17] Base on-site payroll for Site Lead, researchers/technicians, security and admin (item #13) plus partial FTE medical staffing and on-call medics/psych screening (item #17).
Research And Monitoring $817K/yr
[#4, #8, #9, #12, #15, #25, #26, #28] Ongoing surveillance monitoring contracts, XACTS calibration and maintenance, Hume detector calibration, continued archiving/backups, refresher training costs, formal research program budget, long-term log retention, and off-site replica testing time.
Rapid Response Readiness $175K/yr
[#24] On-call premiums, retained readiness, and rapid-deployment readiness for Protocol Realignment operations.
Personnel Vetting $48K/yr
[#27] Recruitment, background checks, polygraphs and clearance pipeline costs for new Level-3 staff.
Supplies And Consumables $42K/yr
[#18, #22] Annual amnestics replenishment/administration and general consumables (PPE, batteries, spare parts, cleaning supplies).
Logistics And Transport $30K/yr
[#16] D-class transfers, secure vehicle operations, transport sedation/medical oversight attributable to SCP-3326.
Classified It Maintenance $28K/yr
[#21] Maintenance, secure hosting and support for hardened on-site servers, encrypted comms and backups.
Disposal Contingency Per Incident $25K/yr
[#29] Annual budgetary allocation for investigation/containment/relocation per incident (expected average annual allocation for disposal/unknown-entity events).
Cover Story And Legal $20K/yr
[#19, #20] Ongoing social-media takedown/monitoring and legal/cover liaison renewals.
Facilities Maintenance $9K/yr
[#5, #10, #11] Annual maintenance for access-control systems, generator fuel/testing and climate-control power for the vault.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.5M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with routine monitoring, scheduled research, and no major incidents.
routine_operations scheduled_research no_major_breach
🚨 Minor Incident $3.7M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Localized containment deviation requiring Protocol Realignment, extra MTF mobilization and limited amnestic/legal work.
clock_deviation protocol_realignment temporary_entanglement
🚨 Major Breach $6.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Failed containment with public exposure/mass-information footprint requiring mass-amnestic deployment, large buyouts and extended MTF/relocation operations.
failed_containment public_exposure mass_amnestic_operations
👥 Personnel 15 total
Role Count Notes
Site Lead / Senior Researcher 1 [#13] Senior researcher / site lead responsible for SCP oversight (estimated salary ~ $120k).
Research Scientist 2 [#13] Research staff working temporal experiments and analysis (estimated salary ~ $120k each).
Technician 4 [#13] Technicians maintaining equipment, sensors, and lab bench work (estimated salary ~ $60k each).
Security Officer / On-site Guards 5 [#13] 24/7 rotating security staffing for site perimeter and chamber security (estimated salary ~ $40k each).
Administrative Staff 2 [#13] Administrative/clerical support for cover story maintenance, scheduling and logistics (estimated salary ~ $50k each).
Medical Officer 1 [#17] On-call medic/psych screening partial FTE included for realignment operations and monitoring (salary and on-call costs folded into medical staffing estimate).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items have wide ranges (site purchase price, bespoke XACTS R&D, contingency needs) so mid-point estimates were used; staffing and MTF costs are reasonably well-specified but anomalous-device procurement remains uncertain.
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