Revenue per employee charts are a fascinating way to judge the health of tech companies

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A quick, interesting way to gauge the health of tech companies is to look at their revenue per employee.

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Is managing actually growing the business by investing headcount? Or just treading water?

The best way to do look up this metric is to go to Wolfram Alpha and enter a query like this: "[company name] revenue per employee over the past [X] years."

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Here are some charts on some big name tech companies.

Yahoo revenue per employee over the past 10 years:

Yahoo revenue per employee

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Google revenue per employee over the past 10 years:

Google revenue per employee

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Amazon revenue per employee over the past 10 years:

Amazon revenue per employee

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Microsoft revenue per employee over the past 10 years:

Microsoft revenue per employee

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Apple revenue per employee over the past 10 years:

Apple revenue per employee

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Facebook revenue per employee over the past 3 years:

Facebook_revenue_per_employee_over_the_past_3_years_ _Wolfram_Alpha

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Twitter revenue per employee over the past 3 years:

Twitter revenue per employee

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LinkedIn revenue per employee over the past 4 years:

LinkedIn revenue per employee

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