Revenue per Employee in China vs US

by Vincent Chan on Apr 23, 2010

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Saw this interesting post, ranking tech companies by revenue per employee, on Signal vs. Noise and its following discussion. I wonder what the numbers will look like for tech companies in Asia. The findings are pretty interesting. Let me show you the numbers now:

(Note: 37signals has already mentioned that the ideal measurement would be using “profit and payroll” instead of “revenue and employee headcount”. It’s hard to get those numbers though. Still, these interesting numbers should give us a better idea at which companies are the most efficient.)

More established US companies:

Tech companies in China:

While I am not going to make any conclusions based on these numbers, one thing is pretty significant – the revenue per employee numbers of the Chinese companies are a lot less than the ones in the US. Because of technology? productivity? knowledge? Need to find out more about these in the future.

Happy Friday!

*UPDATE: I have updated the chart and table for the Chinese tech companies with correct data. Thanks for the reader in the comment section.

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Nitpicker

Vincent. These revenue figures for Chinese companies seem unrealistically high. Have you converted from yuan to USD? Added a few zeros by mistake? Alibaba.com's revenue should be around USD 1.5 billion.
Love your blog,
Nitpicker.
http://Scale.cc Vincent Chan

Thanks a lot for pointing out the mistakes! Just updated it with correct numbers. Thanks!
Nitpicker

Vincent. These revenue figures for Chinese companies seem unrealistically high. Have you converted from yuan to USD? Added a few zeros by mistake? Alibaba.com's revenue should be around USD 1.5 billion.
Love your blog,
Nitpicker.
http://Scale.cc Vincent Chan

Thanks a lot for pointing out the mistakes! Just updated it with correct numbers. Thanks!
http://rahul.choudhury.name/ Rahul

Consider Nintendo (Japan) – data from 2008: http://www.edge-online.com/news/ft-each-nintend…

“Nintendo employs less than 3,000 permanent staff, each of whom takes home an average annual salary of $90,900 a year. Assuming the platform holder achieves its net profit target of 410 billion yen ($3.9bn) in 2008, each employee will generate the company $1.6 million in profit, according to the paper’s calculations.”
http://Scale.cc Vincent Chan

Good point. That's why I think Nintendo is a well-run business too.
http://www.penguinsix.com/ penguinsix

Is Alibaba's revenue really $1.5 billion USD? I just saw something that their quarterly revenue is only 1.2 billion RMB which would sort of work out to about $800 million US for the year.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2010-05/14/con…
LC

It seems that the Nintendo is business will be threatened by Apple’s device. We will quickly see the damage by the result of gaming moving to the handled device.
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