Revenue per employee chart: Anthropic tops at $12.3M, rivaled only by Jane Street
davidyin44 · x · 2026-11-04
A revenue-per-employee comparison chart (log scale) shows Anthropic leading at $12.3M per employee, with OpenAI at $5.6M — only trading firms Jane Street ($11.3M) and Hudson River Trading ($7.8M) come close.
Other data points: big finance stays near or under $1M (Goldman Sachs $1.2M, BlackRock $973k, JPMorgan $573k); fintechs trail big banks, with Ramp highest at $854k. Among AI application startups, Cursor reaches up to $13.3M, Lovable $2.7M, ElevenLabs $943k; finance AI-agent startup Fundamental hits $1.6M. The poster's takeaway: revenue per employee says a lot about company culture and talent density.
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