All hail the vocal minority! I'm starting to wonder how much they get paid. Does that make me crazy too? 
At the moment, the vast majority of the dev team (all?) get paid... nothing at all for working on bitcoin.
We're fortunate to have the chance to pay Gavin to devote his full attention to bitcoin. Another developer might be securing permission to use a small part of his work week on bitcoin.
Paypal, the US dollar, the Euro, etc. have collectively thousands of programmers to work on keeping it all secure. We have the world's first decentralized global currency, and we have... a few unpaid devs.
This is where the Bitcoin Foundation can really help.
Unfortunately, whatever is determined to pay Gavin, the current remaining four will want the same compensation, if not more depending on the average salary standards of their respected trade. Then you have a couple other seats available, with those filling them expecting the same. And finally there's the pseudonym seat. Surely he's deserves the same wage. So let's do the math. Eight seats times a respectable salary of $50,000 USD/year equals $400,000 USD/year.
Somebody check my work.
~Bruno~