Alphabet generated about $0.00 million of revenue per employee in 2025: $402.8B of revenue with 190,820.0 employees at year end. That is up from $0.00M in 2023 (calculated).
Sources: Alphabet Form 10-K for 2025 and Q2 2026 earnings release (SEC EDGAR). Analysis by The Business Engineer.
How we source: figures on this page come from the company’s own filings (SEC 10-K, 10-Q and earnings releases, or its annual report), with the period stated next to each number. Last refreshed October 2026. Our methodology.
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| Key Facts | |
| Founders | Larry Page & Sergey Brin |
| Year & Place Founded | September 4, 1998, Menlo Park, CA |
| Initially Called | BackRub, in 1996 |
| Year of IPO | 8/19/2004 |
| IPO Price | $85.00 |
| Total Revenues at IPO | 961.8 million by 2003, prior to IPO |
| Name change | On October 2, 2015, Google became Alphabet, the parent company |
| Total Revenues in 2023 | $307.4 billion |
| Revenue per employee in 2023 | $1,684,332 |
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Why Google’s revenue per employee keeps rising
Headcount has barely moved since 2023 (182,502.0 at the end of 2023, 183,323.0 at the end of 2024, 190,820.0 at the end of 2025), while revenue grew from $307.4B to $402.8B. After the 2023 layoffs Alphabet kept hiring tight and let the business scale.
By June 2026 headcount had risen to 198,933.0. Even so, quarterly revenue of $119.8B works out to more than $2 million a year per employee at an annualised rate.
Revenue per employee says nothing about pay or profit per person, but it does show operating leverage: software and ads scale without proportional hiring. See Google employees and Apple vs Google headcount.
Earlier figures and background
Google generated $1,684,332 per employee by 2023 compared to $1,486,779 per employee in 2022. As of January 2023, as the company announced a mass layoff, it returned its revenue per employee at $1,586,880, still behind the peak in 2021, for $1,840,330.
