May 16th, 2009
GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee
Peter Alguacil over at Pingdom has crunched numbers on tech company profits per employee and Google comes top with $210K per person in 2008.
Microsoft $194K
Baidu $164K
Apple $151K
Cisco $122K
Adobe $119K
Ebay $110K
Intel $64K
Oracle $64K
Dell $32K
Amazon $31K
Yahoo $$31K
IBM $31K
HP $26K
Sun $12K
Is there a connection between size and profits per staff person?
One would imagine that the larger a company gets, the more difficult it becomes to minimize overhead and costs. For example, HP and IBM, by far the largest companies listed here in terms of sheer size, have a relatively low profit margin per employee.
In that sense Microsoft is doing a very good job considering that they are close to matching Google in spite of having 4.5 times as many employees. And of course, looking at overall profit for the company, Microsoft is way ahead of every other company on this list.
I’d love to see a comparison between stock market performance and profit per employee.
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