It really depends on the company. (Although $100k sounds really light as it would be hard to make payroll unless the company's employees are all in a low-cost c

It really depends on the company. (Although $100k sounds really light as it would be hard to make payroll unless the company's employees are all in a low-cost country.) TL;DR is most successful tech companies at scale make > $300k/employee in revenue. Here's something I saw a while back: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-per-employee-2015-10/#2-google-1154896-per-employee-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-pe... Also this more recent edition: http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple-facebook-google-others-2016-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple... and this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/217489/revenue-per-employee-of-selected-tech-companies/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/217489/revenue-per-emplo...