When looking at revenue / employee, in businesses where wages are the biggest cost (eg: software), that ratio also gives you a upper bound to how much you can p

When looking at revenue / employee, in businesses where wages are the biggest cost (eg: software), that ratio also gives you a upper bound to how much you can pay employees and still be profitable. In my book, revenue / employee is much more meaningful than profit / employee, because profit is arbitrary to a large extent.