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Profit Per Employee: Google Earns $210K, Yahoo Just $32K

2 comments  |  by: Andy Beal May 17, 2009  | about: GOOG / MSFT / YHOO
   
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Pingdom reports that Google (GOOG) made a stunning $209,624 profit per employee in 2008 (click on chart to enlarge).

Perhaps just as impressive is Microsoft’s (MSFT) $194,297 per person. When you consider MSFT has 4x the employees as Google–which typically means a lot more "non revenue generating" jobs–that’s quite an achievement.

Any surprises on that list? Yahoo (YHOO), anyone?

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Andy Beal is an internationally-renowned consultant, author, and speaker specializing in online reputation management and internet marketing. Considered one of the world’s most respected reputation management experts, Andy has worked with many brand-leaders including Motorola, GlaxoSmithKline,... More
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    well yahoo is no suprise since yang frigged it up for all of them
    2009 May 17 03:40 AM Reply
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    Check your sources. Income != Profit. Google pays out huge amounts of its income in the form of Traffic Acquisition Cost, so its net profit is WAY lower than what you state.
    2009 May 17 10:52 PM Reply