nanoUFOM to GamesEnglish · 5 days agoWe learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Applewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square235fedilinkarrow-up1509arrow-down18
arrow-up1501arrow-down1external-linkWe learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Applewww.pcgamer.comnanoUFOM to GamesEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square235fedilink
minus-squareJokeDeity@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·3 days agoIs that just clever wording or are the employees actually seeing bigger checks?
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-23 days agoFor once, it looks like the answer is that they do see some big checks. From an article someone posted further down the thread: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted Lowest paid department is hardware, with an average of about $430k/employee. Now, that is an average, and it’s hard to tell from here if a few highly paid employees in each department are throwing that number off.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoIt’s being phrased as an ROI per employee “asset”, not as compensation per actual employee. Gabe is pocketing most of this.
minus-squarefilcuk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·3 days agoIt’s not ‘clever wording’, it says what it is - dividing profit by the number of employees results in a higher number for valve. The heading isn’t comparing employee paychecks,it’s about overall company performance.
Is that just clever wording or are the employees actually seeing bigger checks?
For once, it looks like the answer is that they do see some big checks. From an article someone posted further down the thread:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted
Lowest paid department is hardware, with an average of about $430k/employee.
Now, that is an average, and it’s hard to tell from here if a few highly paid employees in each department are throwing that number off.
It’s being phrased as an ROI per employee “asset”, not as compensation per actual employee.
Gabe is pocketing most of this.
It’s not ‘clever wording’, it says what it is - dividing profit by the number of employees results in a higher number for valve.
The heading isn’t comparing employee paychecks,it’s about overall company performance.