User blog comment:Tedgill/Making Ads Better: How We're Going to Do It/@comment-30851602-20170121130156/@comment-5650583-20170121154315

@DrMrsTheMonarch: Admins are unpaid. Only Wikia Staff get paid, since they are employees of Wikia.

Face it, without ads, we would have to pay something to use Wikia. I'm trying to keep expenses to a minimum (lost my job a while back), so I would likely have to give up Wikia if it was something I had to pay for. And I don't want to do that, since I really like it here.