Station Manager Salary

[chip56]

One question:

What exactly defines the salary of a station manager?

In most cases i tend not to use them because they eat my valuable profits.
And i just tried again to use them for the repair ships function to check if the reduced manual input for repairing some Athena might be worth it.
I tried it on a rather unimportant complex that consists of only mines yet. So the manager could only sell ore and wafers. I gave that manager 2 ships and jut let it run for about 5 hours:
Result: each hour i pay 160k salary and the ships manage about 1-2 runs worth 100k on average. Not exactly a great deal...

So i wonder what exactly adds how much to the salaray? Number of stations? Profit of the station? Value of produced products? Number of ships?
Also is there any upper cap?

[Snafu_X3]

Further to this, a nice addition to the graph screen filters for stations would be something like: 'Salary paid' vs 'Net income', to allow a quick visual check of how well a manager is performing..

[Cycrow]

The salary for station manager will be rebalanced in 1.2, especially for complex.

But for complexes it'll be based on the number of products and resources (ignoring intermediates) but with a maximum cap. So even large complexes will be cheaper to run than a dock/hq.

The salary is also charged every 2 hours (currently its every hour)

The global trade report will show you the total wages paid

[Snafu_X3]

The global trade report will show you the total wages paid

Useful, but is that broken down by station or is it truly 'global (ie empire-wide)'?