But companies have expenses other than payroll. Google has to buy machines, run datacenters, pay partners, etc. If you look at income per employee, it takes al

But companies have expenses other than payroll. Google has to buy machines, run datacenters, pay partners, etc. If you look at income per employee, it takes all of this into account. For Google, this is $270K: http://csimarket.com/stocks/singleEfficiencyeit.php?code=GOOG http://csimarket.com/stocks/singleEfficiencyeit.php?code=GOO... So they could presumably pay everyone $250K more than they do now and still be marginally profitable.