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The Average Employee Is Worth $22.5 Million At Facebook; $200,000 At McDonalds

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Yesterday we showed a chart demonstrating that while the top 10 "Unicorn" startups have a private valuation of $156 billion on just $4 billion in revenue, what caught readers' attention is that the average employee among these 10 companies is worth a whopping $8 million.

 

But what about the "value" of employees at public companies, and especially at the blue chips, names such as MSFT, XOM, JPM, MCD and, the more recent trailblazers, AAPL and FB?

The answer is shown below.

At the very top we have Facebook and AAPL, whose average employee is valued at $22.5 million and $6.5 million. On the trailing end we have Caterpiller, Boeing and McDonalds, whose average employee is worth less than a million dollars, going down to just about $200,000 in the case of the world's largest fast food giant.

 

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Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:51 | 6393100 JustObserving
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And government employees like congressmen and senators have how much negative worth to balance out the economy?

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:59 | 6393130 TuPhat
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You are correct but Congress critters and senators are just the scum on the sess pool.  Employees at IRS, EPA, HUD, and all other alphabet agencies are the stinking crud.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:17 | 6393195 Occident Mortal
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Why not add a hedge fund or two just for the comedy value.

 

Go on, show everyone where the real earning power lies.

 

Why make stuff, when you can just own it?

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:27 | 6393209 Creepy A. Cracker
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Tomorrow's Headline: Burger Flippers Kill Highly Valued Facebook Geeks with their Spatulas.  Demand $100/hour pay for their genius.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:11 | 6393171 XAU XAG
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Instead of Enterprise value

 

Tax value to Government for debt owed would be an interesting take

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:55 | 6393115 NoWayJose
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Amazing how much worth there is in stealing snippets of people's lives and selling them.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:07 | 6393156 oddjob
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Fuck Facebook in the face.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:25 | 6393216 Creepy A. Cracker
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That's why I use an alias on Facebook, not my real name: Creepy A. Cracker.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:52 | 6393285 zuuma
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Hahaha!  Alias, you say?
Sure!

You figure that you're safe from data mining?  Keylogging? Packet monitoring? Archiving/ sniffing email?

Faceplant is doing all those things and lots more. They LAUGH at your alias.
They know & store ALL your MAC addys, ISPs, IPs, etc.
You are 100% scanned, tracked & collated the second you go to the faceboob page.
 Ever notice that - despite your alias - they suggest "people you may know", who are, indeed, people that you know?
Plus all the fresh, new spam & popups targeted to your "real" email that just happen to match up with whatever you're surfing about.

Do you think that's air you're breathing, Skippy?

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:45 | 6393803 Creepy A. Cracker
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" Ever notice that - despite your alias - they suggest "people you may know", who are, indeed, people that you know?"

No, that has never happened.  All of the people Facebook thinks I might know went to "School of Hard Knocks High School."

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:56 | 6393116 pragmatic hobo
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vast majority of amazon workers are pickers and packers ... how can they be worth more than boeing where vast majority of workers are engineers and craftsman?

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:59 | 6393132 mtl4
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It's because mature industries don't allow for speculative growth numbers.........hard to get rich if the stock won't shoot to the moon for me when I buy it.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 11:05 | 6393331 Matthew John
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Vast majority of McDonald's workers are also unskilled labor.

200K net worth?

I doubt it.... I bet it's net worth negative.

 

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:57 | 6393123 vq1
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the digital age is such a boon to corporate structure (for the owners)

 

such tiny overhead 

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 09:58 | 6393125 Chuck Knoblauch
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Are you saying the US economy runs because there are about 50k people who make a lot of money?

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:01 | 6393128 Sudden Debt
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A normal value of a employee these days is about 200K

If it's less, you start to fire people.

It costs about 50K in salaries, you probably sell products with a markup of 25-30% so you need about 200K in turnover to cover salaries and then you start to make money for yourself. And a little nestegg to cover 2 bad months a year should also be included because 2 bad months is a best case scenario.

Believe me, it's not easy to be a self employed man these days.

 

And as most companies are valued with a PE of 20, you shouldn't be surprised to see that they need government handouts to stay afloat because normal companies not listed would be bankrupt with a number like McDonalds.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:04 | 6393142 Chuck Knoblauch
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Illegal drug and human trafficing funds helps.

Government subsidies help greatly.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:19 | 6393198 lasvegaspersona
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been there for 30+ years. You only keep what is left after paying the bills...and the bills ALWAYS come on time!

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:26 | 6393217 Panafrican Funk...
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"And as most companies are valued with a PE of 20, you shouldn't be surprised to see that they need government handouts to stay afloat because normal companies not listed would be bankrupt with a number like McDonalds."

Median wage in the US is $26K.  $200K/employee would give you a 7.7x labor multiplier.  Unless your tech/capital spend is crazy high or the market you're in calls for a very small markup on your all-in operating cost, really not understanding your point.  

 

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:29 | 6393227 Sudden Debt
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Well, here in Europe, and I don't know how it works in America,

there's a big difference between wages and what it costs the employer.

If your employee makes 26K, it costs the employer X2.5 in salary costs. So the employer pays 78K for that employee in Europe.

Our socialist paradise needs to be funded somehow and this is how.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:03 | 6393140 Dr. Engali
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Well if I'm valued at 4 million how about if we cut a deal?  I'll take 50% of my value and we'll call it even. Hey it works for the lottery winners.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:06 | 6393153 Chuck Knoblauch
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Wow, I guess we should raise taxes because you're all so wealthy.

More propaganda.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:11 | 6393170 fromthinair
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zh, define the problem  clearly.  What is the message that you are trying to send?

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:22 | 6393205 NOZZLE
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What about my goto dining place, SHITPOTLE? 

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:28 | 6393206 falak pema
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Look at it this way : World GDP is 65 trillion for 9 billion = 7000 $/human

World debt is around 200 trllion officially = - 22000 $/human. 

So life ain't worth much; in fact the net worth is pretty negative. No wonder we now have people dying in the oceans.

Doesn't look like it will improve until that negative net worth DISAPPEARS ! 'Cos the Oligarchs don't like paying for people with negative net worth! Better just to trash them then to feed them...

Meanwhile, back at the global Casino, making profits for the Oligarchs while they  sleep and making moar debt for the unwashed,  we have an electronic giant wheel managing --outside ALL regulatory control-- 700  trillions of derivative bets; by DEFINITION a zero sum game.

SO who wins from this huge spinning wheel of fake money all the while the Cbs print to feed it and the Oligarchy profits?

The anwser is 99 % of these derivative bets are meaningless and don't help  the real economy.

THERE ARE ONLY THERE SO THAT THE BANKSTERS CAN EARN THEIR COMMISSIONS FOR SERVING THE OLIGARCHS.

Middle man shenanigans of huge financial nuclear sized scam, 'cos its feeding chronic insolvency and its systemic.

700 trllions for sweet nothings except to generate bankster commissions.

Now we know how the financial world functions. And what the trade offs are for the real world.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 10:29 | 6393229 Hohum
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Right, because industrial civilization isn't wealth creating, it's wealth destroying. 

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:39 | 6393774 Pumpkin
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"Look at it this way : World GDP is 65 trillion for 9 billion = 7000 $/human

World debt is around 200 trllion officially = - 22000 $/human."

 

Fiat money makes for a fictional debt.  People are not fictions.  Satan's very own plan.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:15 | 6393634 Heywood Jahblohmee
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When you start to value a human life in monetary terms you know the end is near for you.

 

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:16 | 6393642 Heywood Jahblohmee
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So how many McSoylent Green burgers can one average size human produce?

It will come to that someday for the bean counters.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:18 | 6393650 Heywood Jahblohmee
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When your Chosenite buddies refer to Palestinians and Arabs as insects and many of you agree,  Then you know that America is truly doomed.

Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:52 | 6393850 NoWayJose
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Amazing how much worth there is in stealing snippets of people's lives and selling them.

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