← SCP Cost Explorer Read on SCP Wiki ↗
SCP-4141 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-4141
Expected annual
$2.6M
One-time setup
$16.8M
Annual recurring
$2.6M
Personnel
18
One-time capital and contingency choices (including optional property acquisition) dominate the upfront cost (~$16.76M), while annual operations are driven primarily by staff wages, monitoring/OSINT, legal/PR and field casework (~$2.65M/yr). Main long-term drivers are human monitoring, legal/cover-up costs, and per-entrant scaling.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $16.8M
Property Acquisition $14.0M
[#27] Optional purchase/acquisition of building/room (city-dependent; included as optional one-time).
Multi Year Reserve $800K
[#26] Multi-year reserve / one-time capital referenced in the 5-year projection.
Contingency Fund $625K
[#19] One-time recommended emergency/containment reserve allocation.
Public Liability Reserve $300K
[#24] One-time public liability / litigation reserve.
Osint Development $225K
[#9] One-time OSINT/webcrawler development and initial deployment.
Equipment $158K
[#3, #6, #7, #14, #15] Camera & sensor hardware, UPS/backup power, secure-comm endpoints, external sensors, forensic packet-capture setup (hardware & install).
Emergency Legal Pool $150K
[#17] One-time emergency legal pool for crises (separate from retainer).
Legal Setup And Negotiation $138K
[#1] One-time legal/negotiation/setup to secure university cover agreement / lease or exclusive access arrangement.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#12, #13] Secure database initial setup and bench / remote-sensor equipment for research.
Memetic Toolkit Setup $100K
[#16] One-time memetic toolkit / capability setup for digital suppression / memetic countermeasures.
Major Incident Medical Pool $55K
[#18] One-time pool for a major medical/mortuary response per large incident (per-incident reserve).
Redundancy Cold Takeover $50K
[#23] Offsite mirrored systems and cold-takeover plan (one-time buildout).
Initial Vetting Setup $30K
[#21] Initial vetting expenditures / setup (representative initial vetting for involved staff).
Facilities $20K
[#2] Door reinforcement and covert structural frame/installation.
Per Entrant Onboarding $9K
[#25] One-time per-new-entrant onboarding (ID creation, dossier, initial surveillance) — per-case marginal onboarding cost.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.5M/yr
[#4, #5, #8, #10, #13, #15] Security monitoring operators, contracted guards, nightly handlers/psychologists, OSINT analysts, research team salaries, forensic IT analysts.
Logistics And Transport $322K/yr
[#11, #20] Field tracking & surveillance casework (example aggregated cost for monitored population), safehouse rent and travel reimbursements for field staff.
Contingency Medical Response $175K/yr
[#18] On-call medical team & mortuary contracts, coordinated death-response protocols and readiness.
Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr
[#17, #24] Legal retainer, PR/cover-story management and recurring litigation readiness retainer.
Property Taxes And Maintenance $150K/yr
[#27] Recurring property taxes & maintenance if Foundation purchases the room/building (optional).
Amnestic And Takedown $112K/yr
[#16] Baseline retainer for takedowns / memetic countermeasures / targeted amnestic ops; excludes per-incident escalation budget.
Research And Monitoring $112K/yr
[#9, #12, #14] Recurring OSINT compute/API fees, secure database storage & compliance, sensor maintenance/calibration.
University Hush Payments $62K/yr
[#1] Recurring lease/hush/payments to university administration to avoid public scrutiny (scale-dependent).
Facilities Maintenance $24K/yr
[#2, #6, #23] Annual lock/countermeasure inspections, UPS/maintenance, redundancy/disaster-recovery recurring costs.
Training And Opsec $20K/yr
[#21] Ongoing OPSEC training program and annual training costs.
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#22] Radios, encrypted phones, PPE, batteries, small replacements and field consumables.
Per New Entrant Annual Monitoring $11K/yr
[#25] Marginal annual monitoring cost per each new SCP-4141-1 entrant (per-case; used for scaling).
Camera Storage And Offsite Backups $3K/yr
[#3] Redundant off-site recording storage, retention and mirrored backups.
Projected Baseline Operating Budget Reference $0/yr
[#26] Reference to projected 5-year baseline operating budget; this is a planning summary and not double-counted here.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.6M/yr
95.8% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with steady-state monitoring, research, legal retainers and regular operations.
no public leaks no deaths or clusters steady-state staff and monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $2.7M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$80K vs baseline
Small public leak or limited online exposure requiring takedowns, a few targeted amnestic/takedown operations, legal/PR surge and overtime.
single small leak on social media limited takedown & legal response 1–3 targeted amnestic operations
🚨 Major Breach $3.6M/yr
0.2% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Cluster deaths, multiple new entrants or widespread leaks requiring mass response: rapid arrests, mass amnesticization, temporary facilities and heavy legal action.
death of an SCP-4141-2 with correlated deaths simultaneous multiple new entrants / public cascade large-scale leak requiring emergency mass operations
👥 Personnel 18 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 5 [#4] 24/7 monitoring operators (3 shifts) for camera/watch operations; headcount chosen to match monitoring wage budget.
Contracted Guard 2 [#5] Periodic on-site covert guards / observers (contracted); costed as recurring personnel.
Research Scientist 3 [#13] Cognitive/memetic researchers studying SCP-4141 and projector output; staff_wages includes salaries.
Lab Technician / Support 1 [#13] Technical support for remote sensors, bench equipment and data collection.
OSINT Analyst 3 [#9, #10] Analysts to triage crawler hits, create watchlists and maintain dossiers.
Forensic IT Analyst 1 [#15] Packet-capture and network analysis specialist for internal traffic monitoring and secure comms.
Handler / Psychologist 1 [#8] Nightly contact staff / mental-health coverage for SCP-4141-1 instances (rotating handlers).
Medical Officer / Contractor 1 [#18] On-call medical contractor for contingency responses and mortuary coordination.
Administrative Staff 1 [#1, #17] Admin / liaison for legal agreements, contracting and cover-story coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are medium-confidence: analyst notes provide clear cost ranges for nearly all items, but many items (legal/hush payments, per-entrant scaling, optional property acquisition) have wide ranges and depend on policy choices; incidents are infrequent and sample sizes are small.
← SCP-4140 ↑ All SCPs SCP-4142 →