{"id":853,"date":"2011-10-30T12:28:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2011-10-30T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T19:28:41","slug":"apples-net-income-per-employee-leads-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2011\/10\/30\/apples-net-income-per-employee-leads-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s net income per employee leads everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s headcount, up 30%, still industry’s most productive<\/a>
[Via Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine \u00bb Apple 2.0<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n

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With one seventh as many employees as IBM, Apple generates 13 times more profit<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In most recent quarter. Source: Google Finance, Apple Inc. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As of September, Apple (AAPL<\/a>) had 60,400 full-time equivalent employees, according to the SEC Form 10-K<\/a> it filed Wednesday, nearly 30% more than the 46,600 it reported in Q4 2010.<\/p>\n

But those employees generate more profit per capita — by far — than any of Apple’s peers in the industry.<\/p>\n

In the quarter that ended in September — not its best, mind you — the company generated sales of $28.3 billion and net income of $6.62 billion, or nearly $110,000 profit per employee.<\/p>\n

[More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amazon generated about $1500 per employee, almost 10 times less than Apple. In fact, as Apple has gotten larger, its profit per employee has increased.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 2008, the profits per employee have gone up almost 3-fold.<\/em><\/p>\n

How many companies make more money per employee even as they grow? Well, Amazon, Dell and HP make the same amount per employee today as they did in 2008. Microsoft shows a little increase \u2013 maybe 20%. Not the almost 300% that Apple has.<\/em><\/p>\n

Only Google has shown anything close to Apple and it is only up 75% per employee since 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apple really is some different kind of company. It continues to demonstrate the increasing returns that accrue to 21st Century companies<\/a>. It also indicates that Apple continues to answer the questions Arthur posed in his paper Increasing Returns \u00a0and the New World of Business.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wonder when others will begin to answer them also.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple’s headcount, up 30%, still industry’s most productive [Via Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine \u00bb Apple 2.0] With one seventh as many employees as IBM, Apple generates 13 times more profit In most recent quarter. Source: Google Finance, Apple Inc. Click to enlarge. As of September, Apple (AAPL) had 60,400 … Continue reading Apple’s net income per employee leads everyone<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-company"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2yp-dL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":805,"url":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2011\/08\/24\/how-acers-decline-demonstrates-apples-strength-and-microsofts-future-trajectory\/","url_meta":{"origin":853,"position":0},"title":"How Acer's decline demonstrates Apple's strength and Microsoft's future trajectory","date":"August 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by http2007 Acer suffers first-ever quarterly loss, predicts iPad 'fever' will recede[Via AppleInsider] Acer reported the first quarterly loss in company history on Wednesday, but the netbook maker's chairman attempted to convince investors that consumer \"fever\" for tablets like the iPad will not last. 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