Think about what Revenue per Employee means to you. Is it a measure of productivity or a proxy measure of Operating Leverage? Kinda both, right? But, which concerns you more?
There are families of alternative ratios that say the same thing. Please consult Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd which I remember to have categorized them. And, please come back to enlighten us with your findings.
imho, these factors are coming to a head in this economic environment.
?Manufacturing and retail have low revenues/employee but they pay employees poorly. Investment banks have high revenues per employee, but the employees get like 40% of the net.
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Ford rev/emp $745K
JPM rev/emp $483K
I did look at GS too. They are $1.3M per employee.fair point. JPM doesn't package two tons of steel with their derivatives trades.