It's hard to imagine a single programmer being worth a million dollars a year to a company. AdWords is worth, round numbers because I'm lazy, $100 billion a ye

It's hard to imagine a single programmer being worth a million dollars a year to a company. AdWords is worth, round numbers because I'm lazy, $100 billion a year. One million dollars is 10^-5 times AdWords. Want to make a guesstimate as to how many engineers are associated with 10^-2 improvements in AdWords in a given year?