Tufeiwan blogs a recruitment ads of 96 internet police in a county level town [1] in Sichuan at a monthly payment of 1,300 yuan per month. Annual expense for internet police for the town would be 1,497,600. In China, there are 2,000 counties, the total expense for annual recruitment of internet police would be around 3 billions yuan. (zh)
DANWEI has a full translation of the post [2].