Fun with Lists!
Posted by Bradley Johnson in Business, SoftLayerBack when I was doing research for my interview with SoftLayer, one of the things I looked for was financial data. Since SoftLayer isn’t a public company, I couldn’t get financial statements. However, I did find some nice round numbers in a press releases that said they did about $110 million in annual revenue. I thought, hey that’s not bad… Then I kept reading and when I saw that there were 170 employees I became impressed. For those without a calculator handy, at these numbers SoftLayer does about $647,000 in revenue a year per employee.
Because people loves lists, I looked up a few other company’s revenue / employee. These are in no particular industry and have nothing specific in common other than that they were the first to come to my mind.
| Company Revenue Per Employee | Exxon | $3,235,638 |
|---|---|
| Amazon | $1,266,667 |
| $1,180,832 | |
| Toyota | $764,216 |
| Microsoft | $702,022 |
| SoftLayer | $647,059 |
| Nike | $563,663 |
| Intel | $523,133 |
| AT&T | $463,656 |
| American Express | $416,295 |
| Dreamworks | $335,052 |
| Anheuser-Busch | $315,172 |
| New York Times | $314,416 |
| Oracle | $283,048 |
| IBM | $238,541 |
| Rackspace | $232,512 |
| Whole Foods | $203,256 |
| Walmart | $198,410 |
Does anyone else think gas prices could be lower?
Note: The data for revenue and number of employees was either pulled for public press releases or by looking at the Company Profile (# employees) and Key Statistics (Revenue) on Yahoo! Finance.
-Bradley
November 30th, 2010 at 8:11 am
So you’re freely admitting to ripping off your customers in addition to hosting spam sites?
December 7th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
That’s an interesting question, Anonymous. Breaking down revenue per employee can either reflect the cost of services or the efficiency of the organization. SoftLayer’s prices are very competitive when it comes to the features and functionality included with every server, so Bradley’s post is more about our efficiency. We can keep our headcount low by automating as much of the process as possible to lighten the load on our workforce while giving our customers the most control.
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