<i>&gt;Apple: $1,865,306 per employee</i><p>Also, that Business Insider article is an inadvertent IQ test for people who want to regurgitate their figures.  That $1.8 million number is <i>revenue&#x2F;#employees</i> and not <i>profit&#x2F;#employees</i>.  Using profit calculation of $53B&#x2F;98k is ~$500k.  Since, a fully-loaded FTE in Silicon Valley is ~$250k, the ~$500k doesn&#x27;t look that insane.<p>If a writer copy&amp;pastes stuff like that into their own essay without critical thought, don&#x27;t be surprised if it taints the rest of his essay.  For example, the &quot;<i>you are not a commodity</i>&quot; is not fully reasoned out.  In the essay, it&#x27;s just an empty platitude&#x2F;affirmation instead of explaining <i>why</i> some programmers are treated as commodities and <i>how</i> to differentiate themselves to avoid that categorization.