SCP-6355 — SCP-6355 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6355 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-6355

Expected annual

$1.5M

One-time setup

$814K

Annual recurring

$1.4M

Personnel

7.2

One-time capital/retrofit costs are roughly $814k (mostly cell retrofit, sensors, contingency seed) and ongoing annual costs are about $1.44M/yr, driven by staff wages, a bespoke healthcare program, research, security, legal/cover, and an allocated overhead.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $814K

Equipment $231K

[#6, #17, #18, #22] Spectral/sensor suite, specialized countermeasure hardware, vehicle refit/transfer cabinet, and IT/initial equipment setup.

Contingency Reserve Seed $219K

[#21] Initial internal contingency / incident response reserve fund (seeded).

Facilities $206K

[#5, #7, #12] Cell retrofit, HVAC adaptations and kosher kitchen/certification; includes material, labor, HVAC install and kitchen modification.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $119K

[#3] One-time design and development of a personalized healthcare package: clinical R&D, protocols and calibration.

Training And Sop Development $24K

[#11] One-time development of training modules, SOPs, consent forms and initial drills.

Host Instrumentation Sets $15K

[#15] One-time purchase of wearable physiological instrument sets for designated hosts (baseline: 3sets).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.4M/yr

Allocated Overhead $486K/yr

[#25] Allocated site overhead (administration, facilities management, depreciation) applied at ~27.5% of combined recurring + capital program costs.

Staff Wages $330K/yr

[#1, #8, #14, #19] Annual SCP salary (employee-equivalent) plus incremental security/escort wages, additional roster hires for shift coverage, and chaplain/liaison contractor time included in payroll.

Research And Monitoring $262K/yr

[#16] Ongoing funded research program into anomalous sapience and effects (PI + researchers + techs, lab consumables, data storage and experiment costs).

Cover Story And Legal $112K/yr

[#20] Legal retainers, employment law counsel, cover narratives and incident legal response.

Personalized Healthcare $75K/yr

[#4] Recurring costs for bespoke clinical care: specialist clinician time, consumables, tests, therapeutics and follow-ups.

Medical And Psych Screening $31K/yr

[#10] Recurring pre-occupation medicals, psychiatric screening, counseling and post-occupation debriefs.

Kosher Meal Program $31K/yr

[#13] Recurring premium and catering costs for kosher meal program to maintain at least three employees on kosher plans.

Contingency Replenishment $31K/yr

[#21] Annual replenishment/reserve contributions for the contingency/incident fund (replenished as used).

Sensor Maintenance $12K/yr

[#6] Maintenance, calibration and data-archival costs for spectral/sensor suite.

Supplies And Consumables $9K/yr

[#24] Cleaning, laundry, replacement furnishings, kosher food packaging disposables and PPE consumables.

Logistics And Transport $9K/yr

[#18] Recurring vehicle fuel/maintenance, secure transfer scheduling and transport staff costs.

Facilities Maintenance $9K/yr

[#7, #23] HVAC energy and maintenance plus incremental utilities for the retrofitted cell and containment wing.

Refresher Training $8K/yr

[#11] Annual refresher training, drills and SOP updates for occupation windows.

Specialized Countermeasures Replenishment $8K/yr

[#17] Replenishment of medical kits, sedatives, spectral dampers and emergency supplies.

Documentation And Secure It $8K/yr

[#22] Hosting, encrypted backups, secure log retention and access audits for occupation records and SOP versioning.

Employer Payroll Taxes And Benefits $7K/yr

[#2] Employer National Insurance / payroll taxes, pension contributions and payroll admin overhead.

Hazard Stipend $7K/yr

[#9] Host employee hazard stipend / consent compensation for designated hosts (baseline roster coverage).

Per Host Instrumentation Maintenance $5K/yr

[#15] Consumables and maintenance for per-host wearable instrumentation (baseline 3 hosts).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.4M/yr

80.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine operations, no major incidents.

normal operations scheduled care and research routine maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $1.6M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$125K vs baseline

Minor medical/psych incident or small legal exposure requiring contingency use and modest legal/medical spend.

host medical emergency small lawsuit or claim equipment failure requiring repair

🚨 Major Breach $2.1M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$625K vs baseline

Containment breach or public incident requiring large-scale incident response, containment repair, legal action and replacement equipment.

containment failure public exposure major litigation or site repair

🚨 Research Scale Up $1.8M/yr

6.0% probability / year +$375K vs baseline

Program expansion year where research scales up, requiring extra hires, equipment and experiments.

approved expanded research successful protocol requiring scale external collaboration costs

👥 Personnel 7.2 total

Role	Count	Notes
SCP Salary / Employee-equivalent	1	[#1] SCP-6355 is entitled to an annual wage; counted as one employee-equivalent.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	4	[#8] Dedicated guards/escorts for occupation times and routine checks (incremental FTEs for shift coverage).
Additional Staff / Shift Coverage	2	[#14, #13] Extra hires or reassigned FTEs to guarantee kosher roster coverage across shifts.
Chaplain / Cultural Liaison	0.2	[#19] On-call chaplain / cultural liaison contractor (fractional FTE).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates use midpoint assumptions from analyst ranges and a GBP→USD conversion (~1.25 USD/GBP). Line items are well enumerated in analyst notes, but several items (overhead rate, roster size, incident probabilities and contingency draw rates) are uncertain, so overall confidence is medium.

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