How can developing an app could even cost millions of dollars?

Question

I’ve come across some government agencies and other businesses claiming they’d spent millions of dollars developing an app. How can developing an app could cost so much money?

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Answer 1

Designer, developer, and other salaries is one big thing

You’ve got project managers, devs, user experience designers, possibly legal counsel, testing engineers, and others that need to get paid. A quick google search of the average software dev salary in the US is ~120k/year. Depending on what all the app does, it could easily take months to a year to go from an idea to a public release ready application. That’s a good chunk of people needing to get paid.