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by samstave 1789 days ago
Years ago, I heard that Google made $800,000 per employee, I wonder what its at now?

This is why Amazon is as big as it is, because the vast majority of their employees are warehouse and delivery workers at low wages - so the margins they make per employee are insanely higher than Goog...

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From their latest earnings release [0], they had 61.880 billion dollars in revenue for the second quarter and 144,056 employees so a simple annualization of that quarter would put them at 1.718 million dollars in revenue per employee.

[0]: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q2_alphabet_earnings...