• Pingdom, Friday, May 15, 2009 1:15 PM

Google made approximately $210,000 per employee in 2008, beating all other large tech companies, according to an analysis by Pingdom, which, in a series of posts, looked at the financials of major companies, including Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Baidu, Cisco, Dell, eBay, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and Yahoo.

According to the analysis, IBM, Yahoo, Amazon and Dell all made around $30K per employee in 2008; Oracle and Intel made $64K, and eBay, Adobe and Cisco earned between $110-$122K per worker. Rounding out the top four were Apple ($151K), Baidu ($164K), Microsoft ($194K) and Google ($210K).

"One would imagine that the larger a company gets, the more difficult it becomes to minimize overhead and costs," said Pindgom, using the example of HP and IBM, which are by far the largest companies on the list in terms of size and have a relatively low profit margin per employee. In that regard, Microsoft earns an extraordinary amount per worker, despite having nearly five times as many employees as Google. And of course, the software giant is the most profitable company on the list.

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