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SCP-6763 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6763
Expected annual
$28.9M
One-time setup
$61.1M
Annual recurring
$27.9M
Personnel
41
First-year stabilization requires substantial one-time capital and remediation spending (≈ $61.1M), driven primarily by opportunity-cost remediation, severance/retention, and facility/IT changes; ongoing annual operations are large as well (~ $20.6M/yr), driven by personnel, clinical care, legal/cover operations, and R&D.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $61.1M
Opportunity Costs $50.0M
[#25] Non-recurrent opportunity cost example (loss of flagship multi-year projects); included as contingency planning for worst-case mission-impact.
Retention Bonuses $2.5M
[#3] One-off retention/anti-resignation bonuses for high-value at-risk employees (mid-range estimate for targeted payouts).
Severance Payments $2.5M
[#14] Severance packages to reduce disclosures / incentivize silence for high-risk departures (estimated for ~20 high-risk staff).
Facilities $2.2M
[#10, #12, #20] Facility retrofits (enclosed offices/corridors/HVAC), safehouse/outpatient clinic setup, crisis command center setup.
Equipment $1.5M
[#8, #9, #19] Secure remote-work hardware & deployment, VR therapy stations hardware/software, site security equipment.
Cover Pr Reserve $1.0M
[#15] Emergency rapid-response reserve for cover-story / PR operations activated in year one.
Knowledge Capture $525K
[#18] One-time knowledge-transfer capture project (recorded interviews, secure ingestion, initial repository build-out).
Recruitment Onboarding $250K
[#2] Initial recruitment/onboarding pipeline costs (assumes ~10 replacement hires @ ~$25k per hire for agency/vetting/onboarding).
Post Resignation Monitoring $200K
[#13] Initial case-management platform & team one-time setup for post-resignation tracking/cohort intake.
Cross Training Program Setup $200K
[#17] One-time program development cost to enable cross-training / internal reallocation.
Media Mitigation $125K
[#28] Physical media/artefact mitigation and departmental cleanout one-time costs (per-department cleanout scale estimate).
Manager Training Setup $75K
[#29] Curriculum design and rollout one-time cost for manager/supervisor training programs.
Security Training $50K
[#19] One-time training costs for additional guards and access-control procedures.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $27.9M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $4.0M/yr
[#14, #15, #22] Ongoing legal retainers and counsel, PR/cover operations, and litigation/rapid defense reserve (combined recurring legal/cover/litigation budget).
Research And Monitoring $3.0M/yr
[#16] Antimemetic countermeasure R&D (~$3.0M/yr mid-range estimate for small-to-moderate program).
Countermeasure Rnd $3.0M/yr
[#16] Annual R&D budget to develop memetic detection, inoculation/training, and procedural fixes.
Whistleblower Litigation Fund $2.5M/yr
[#22] Ongoing reserve for litigation/settlement to contain disclosures.
Cover Story Pr $1.5M/yr
[#15] Annual PR/cover operations budget for plausible narratives and suppression channels.
Contingency Reserve $1.5M/yr
[#26] Annual contingency/reserve fund (10–15% of response-year budget mid-estimate).
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#1] Dedicated SCP-6763 Response Team (12 FTE @ ~$120k fully-burdened each).
Replacement Hires Salaries $1.2M/yr
[#2] Recurring ongoing salary costs for replacement hires (assumes ~10 net replacements at mid-range salaries ~ $125k each).
Logistics And Transport $1.2M/yr
[#11] Shuttle contracts and proximate housing operating costs for affected staff (approx. shuttle + housing for prioritized staff).
Clinic Operating $1.1M/yr
[#12] Operating costs for safehouses/outpatient recovery clinics (staffing, security, utilities).
Overtime Productivity Loss $975K/yr
[#5] Overtime pay, productivity loss and opportunity/project delay costs attributed to staff covering gaps.
Mental Health Clinical Care $800K/yr
[#6] Additional clinicians (5 @ ~$150k fully burdened) plus consumables/admin for surge clinical capacity.
Post Resignation Monitoring $600K/yr
[#13] Ongoing operations for tracking, case management, covert monitoring budgets (mid-range).
Contractors $528K/yr
[#4] Temporary contractor/consultant labor (4 FT-equivalent contractors for ~6 months @ senior bill rates).
Cross Training $500K/yr
[#17] Ongoing cross-training and internal reallocation annual budget.
Security Wages $500K/yr
[#19] Additional site security guard wages and benefits (10 hires @ ~$40k + benefits).
Recruitment Investments $500K/yr
[#27] Ongoing fellowships, university partnerships, and pipeline investments to restore talent.
Pharmacotherapy Program $480K/yr
[#7] Psychiatric medications and monitoring for affected staff (mid-range estimate for ~200 affected staff).
Longitudinal Studies $400K/yr
[#21] Longitudinal psychological and epidemiological study budgets (mid-range).
Legal Retainers $350K/yr
[#14] Annual counsel retainers / legal advisory fees (separate from litigation contingency).
Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr
[#30] Increased consumables/utilities for clinics, VR suites, housing, servers, printing/shredding, disposables.
Insurance Premiums $300K/yr
[#23] Additional liability and mental-health-related insurance premium increases.
Operational Consumables $300K/yr
[#30] Additional utilities, clinical disposables, travel, and server/storage operating costs.
Crisis Command Ops $275K/yr
[#20] Ongoing staffed hotline, secure comms, and operations center expenses.
Eap Scale Up $225K/yr
[#24] Employee Assistance Program expansion and support services.
Secure Remote Work Maintenance $200K/yr
[#9] Ongoing maintenance, monitoring and updates for hardened remote-work systems.
Archival Maintenance $100K/yr
[#18] Ongoing archival maintenance and secure repository costs for captured knowledge.
Vr Operation $50K/yr
[#8] Ongoing VR therapy operation/maintenance and clinician time (operation costs distinct from hardware).
Manager Training Refresh $50K/yr
[#29] Annual refresh/continuing education for managers trained to detect/resist resignation contagion.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $27.9M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Uneventful year after initial stabilization: no major new mass resignations or public exposure; regular recurring response and programmatic costs only.
no major additional resignations no public exposure programs operate as planned
🚨 Minor Incident $25.6M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$-2300000 vs baseline
Localized surge in resignations / mid-scale memetic flare requiring emergency retention payouts, targeted litigation, and short-term contractor surge.
localized mass resignations (tens of staff) targeted whistleblower threats need for emergency contractors and retention
🚨 Major Breach $70.6M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$42.7M vs baseline
Systemic exodus and/or public exposure requiring large-scale cover operations, litigation, replacement-of-capacity, and realization of large opportunity/mission losses.
systemic >50% staff loss in key departments public leak / whistleblower cascade large-scale litigation or mission-impact realization
👥 Personnel 41 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Antimemetics Specialist 12 [#1] Dedicated SCP-6763 Response Team (antimemetics, surrealistics, data scientists, ops liaison).
Clinician / Mental Health Specialist 5 [#6] Additional psychiatrists/clinical psychologists for surge clinical care.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#19] Additional site security hires to manage ingress/egress and escorts.
Contractor / Consultant (FT-equivalent) 4 [#4] Short-term contractors to backfill projects during hiring/training.
Replacement Researcher / Technician 10 [#2] Newly recruited replacement staff (recurring salary budget assumed).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on detailed analyst notes with ranges for nearly every line item; however many items (memetic effects, opportunity costs, legal exposure) have wide uncertainty ranges and scenario-dependent one-time impacts, so confidence is moderate rather than high.
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