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The 20 Companies With the Most Profit Per Employee

The 20 Companies With the Most Profit Per Employee

Profit per worker on the Fortune Global 500

The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays.

Earlier in the week, we showed you the companies that make the most profit per second.

It’s a measure where Apple blows every other company out of the water. The tech giant makes $1,444 in net income per second – about $700 higher than its closest competition, which include banks, conglomerates, and other tech companies.

While Apple may dominate when seconds are used as the denominator, how does it do when looking at profit per employee instead?

Profit Per Employee

Expert Market crunched the numbers on the 100 most profitable companies on the Fortune Global 500 list.

By comparing profits to employees, they came up with a list of the 20 most profitable companies on a per person basis.

RankingCompanyCountryProfit per Employee
1Fannie MaeUS$1,759,000
2Gilead SciencesUS$1,500,111
3Freddie MacUS$1,306,419
4FacebookUS$599,307
5National GridUK$458,639
6AmgenUS$402,187
7AppleUS$393,853
8AlphabetUS$270,329
9Taiwan SemiconductorTaiwan$218,951
10Goldman SachsUS$215,058
11AbbVieUS$198,433
12SoftBank GroupJapan$192,442
13QualcommUS$187,049
14Tencent HoldingsChina$159,533
15Westpac BankingAustralia$155,244
16SPD BankChina$151,287
17Commonwealth BankAustralia$148,749
18MicrosoftUS$147,351
19Cisco SystemsUS$145,712
20Industrial BankChina$144,141

While Apple makes a solid $393,853 in profit for each employee, the company only ranks #7 on the list.

It gets outperformed by one tech company (Facebook, at $599,307 per employee), as well as a combination of companies from the financial, utilities, and biotech sectors.

State Sponsored Profits

On the list, perhaps the most surprising entries are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two U.S. government-sponsored enterprises, which both buy and repackage bank mortgages for the secondary market, were a part of the largest federal bailout in history ($187 billion) during the financial crisis in 2008.

At the time, they were highly criticized for creating an environment of “moral hazard”. As Investopedia puts it:

Quasi-government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offered implicit support to lenders underwriting real estate loans.

-Investopedia

Despite this one-time catastrophe, the two organizations are very profitable today – so profitable, in fact, that they rank #1 and #3 on the above list.

Last year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac brought in $12.3 billion and $7.8 billion in profit respectively. And on a per capita basis, that equates to $1.76 million and $1.5 million per employee.

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