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How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary
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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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I'm having a hard time with the realities of this. How much time should a corporation take to earn the salary of the average employee? What percent of a company's yearly profits would be appropriate to be spent on salaries? Many of the companies are exceeding 1/12. Is that enough? If not, what is?
I know I'll probably be on the wrong side of things (again), but I didn't find this graphic stirring. Is there a number out there that people find acceptable?
Profits aren't spent on salaries. Salaries one of the things deducted from revenue to determine profits.
..who said otherwise?
The OP they responded to did.
https://lemmy.world/comment/5321505
I seriously doubt that these are profits. These are revenue.
Even if we compare it to profits the time frame just switch to minutes. Walmart made a net profit after taxes of 14 billion. That translates to 26k per minute.
Yes, it’s a big company.
Shouldn't the discussion revolve solely around SPENDABLE income? Am I misunderstanding something? I'm sure I am.
No, salaries are based a pre-tax basis. In other words you’re told you’ll make $120,000 per year, that amount is before taxes.
I thing comparison to the employee salary makes no sense whatsoever. Different businesses have different expenditure structures depending on various things, like the type of business their are doing. In some companies, salaries might be dominating expense, in some others barely noticeable. Says nothing about how "fair" the business is.
And two companies with the same proportional structure, but of different number of employees, will have different numbers in this representation.
Ooooooh, companies. I initially misread it as CEOs, and the numbers did not seem right. Though that would be a more interesting metric.