Big Tech revenue and profit per employee
This chart compares whole-company revenue and net income per reported employee at Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta. Its year control spans the latest ten complete common fiscal years; the ratios describe corporate accounting scale, not individual worker productivity, output, or compensation.
What does it show?
Revenue and profit per employee vary dramatically across Big Tech companies and have generally risen after the pandemic hiring boom.
Methodology
Divides each company's annual whole-company revenue and net income by its reported fiscal year-end workforce for Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta across the latest ten complete common fiscal years, 2016–2025. Values are shown in thousands of dollars per reported employee. Financials use the latest-filed annual 10-K facts from the SEC companyfacts API; workforce counts are extracted from the employee disclosure in each 10-K located through the SEC submissions API. These are accounting ratios, not measures of individual worker productivity or compensation. Business models, outsourcing, capital intensity, acquisitions, fiscal calendars, and workforce definitions differ. Amazon includes full- and part-time employees, Apple reports full-time equivalents, year-end headcount is not an annual average, and net income can be affected by one-time items.