@elipowell, that is great news and we appreciate the transparency and the positive intention. I have just done some napkin math so far came up with this estimate:

Monthly Income:
800K selling @ 0.35 USD - $280 000
AWS/AD Revenue Surplus -$ ~40 000
Total income: $ 320 000

Monthly Expenses:
Rental - $2000
Telephone, Internet, Sundries - ~$3000
Electricity and Water - ~$700
Other combined - $10 000
Total Expenses: $15 700

Nett Revenue before salaries: $304 300 per month, assuming you still have 15 employees, (gerbino, roadscape, justinw, vanderberg, andrarchy, birdinc and yourself are the only ones I'm aware of however.) that would mean an average of $20 286 per month each or $243 440 per annum, I would say only executive (yourself) and blockchain devs should be anywhere close to this, blockchain dev job offers I have seen can be around $150K per annum, Steem is very niche so you could perhaps argue the above max for 2-3 of the Steemit devs, but is still high.

This basically means everyone else is severely overpaid at the expense of the Steem price and the community, bear in mind there are many Steemians from low-income countries that will see these numbers as obscene, and a $10 post value helps them sustain their family for a few days, and it hurts them further as the Steem price drops due to sell pressure.

So not knowing the full extent of your expenses and doing some napkin math, I don't see why a small reduction right now is not possible, I would say even 700K monthly sell off instead of 800K is possible right now at the very least, 600 or 500K is likely possible too.