Apple employees earned the company nearly £260,000 each, outstripping Google, Microsoft and Intel staff, according to a report.
With data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Web metrics firm Pingdom, worked out that Apple earned a profit of $419,528 (£258,885) per employee in the past 12 months.
Google employees were worth $336,297 (£207,469) to their bosses; Microsoft staff $244,831 (£151,041); Intel $130,267 (£80,364) each and Cisco’s $107,214 (£66,145) over the last year.
Just two years ago Google ($209,624) and Microsoft ($194,297) were both ahead of Apple ($151,063).
According to Pingdom: “One reason that profit per employee is such an interesting metric is because it gives you a number that doesn’t depend so much on the size of the company. In other words, it becomes easy to compare companies of different sizes.
“In 2008, Google was leading this list, but now Apple has surpassed it by quite some margin. This isn’t because it’s not going well for Google, but rather because it’s going spectacular for Apple.”
In terms of number of employees, Apple has 46,600 in 2011 compared to 32,000 in 2008. Microsoft had 91,000 in 2008 and now has 2,000 fewer, whereas Google has expanded from 20,164 to 26,316.
Apple recently leapfrogged Google and IBM to become the world’s most valuable brand, according to Millward Brown, which said its value soared 84 per cent this year to $153.3bn (£93.3bn) on the back of sales from the its wireless devices the iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2. Millward Brown’s annual Brandz survey showed Google’s brand value slipped by 2 per cent to $111.5bn (£67.9bn) despite dominance in search and the growing Android brand. IBM’s brand value grew by 17% to $100.8bn (£61.4bn).
