What do Tech Companies Earn per Employee?

Bangalore: Internet and technology companies have been credited with steady job-growth in spite of the recession. But have you ever wondered how much each tech employee is worth? Or about the comparison between tech workers and workers in other sectors?

A taste of this comparison can be drawn out from the fact that the automotive company General Motors, (which was the world’s largest IPO in 2010 with a value of $20.1 billion) currently weighs at a market cap of $41.02 billion, and employs 202,000 employees to create that value. Facebook, however, filed for $5 billion dollars in its public offering, and it estimated by market analysts to have a value of $100 billion. It has only 3,000 employees.

Statista, a research firm published the statistics (that was collected and processed over nine months—from January 30, 2011 to September 30 of the same year) of how internet technology companies measure up among others in their domain. A report from Mashable parsed the data together.