Publicly-traded SaaS companies have an average Revenue Per Employee of $200,000

From Tomasz Tonguz
Statistic in SaaS & Tech Growth Strategy

One way of measuring the efficiency of a company’s revenue model is to benchmark revenue per employee. Google and Facebook, the two most efficient companies, generate $1M per revenue per employee per year.

Setting aside those exceptional cases and focusing instead on SaaS companies, the typical average revenue per employee is about $190k to $210k per year.

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