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According to this article, Amazon has $101,749 in revenue per employee (which is almost 2x that of Wal-Mart). That's roughly 1/18th what Apple's doing. https:

• Slippery_John 9y ago
  That's not a comparable metric. That is only going by a single quarter instead of the whole year, which is important when you factor in the holidays at the end of the year. Last year Amazon's revenue was around 136 billion and it had around 341k employees, so the revenue per employee was around $400k
  • a_c_s 9y ago
    Oops, you're right: didn't realize the article was using quarterly numbers!