- Valve employees are reportedly making more money per person than tech giants like huge conglomerates like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Netflix.
- Exact Valve figures are redacted, and the data is now half a decade old.
Valve is one of those irreplaceable presences in the gaming industry that has carried PC gaming for decades. Such a conglomerate also has a dark underbelly—such as CS2 gambling and a lack of moderation on Steam—which are seldom explored in the industry. Whether you explore the company’s virtues or vices, however, it has long surpassed yet another milestone that no one saw coming.
A new report has revealed that the company is making much more per employee—even when all the massive tech giants are counted together.
Why it matters: Valve employees earning more than all the tech giants combined is an astounding fact that confirms just how much of a little giant the conglomerate has become over the decades since launching Steam.
As pointed out in a report by PC Gamer, Valve is making much more per person than all the other tech conglomerates. Yes, this leak accounts for Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and even Microsoft combined.
It is worth noting that Valve has quite a small team, consisting of approximately 470 employees early this year. This figure is staggeringly low when pitted against the likes of Ubisoft and even some smaller AAA studios.
Unfortunately, Valve’s exact net income and other tidbits are redacted for the safety of the leaker, so we’ll never likely find out the figure. However, if Facebook stands at over $780,400, then Valve surpassing that is alone a huge milestone.
All in all, the data is also now half a decade old and might not factor in the many tech and global economic trends we have seen developing since then.
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Shameer Sarfaraz has previously worked for eXputer as a Senior News Writer for several years. Now with Tech4Gamers, he loves to devoutly keep up with the latest gaming and entertainment industries. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and years of experience reporting on games. Besides his passion for breaking news stories, Shahmeer loves spending his leisure time farming away in Stardew Valley. VGC, IGN, GameSpot, Game Rant, TheGamer, GamingBolt, The Verge, NME, Metro, Dot Esports, GameByte, Kotaku Australia, PC Gamer, and more have cited his articles.
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