Nvidia’s run has been so remarkable that the market now believes the company is worth more than $100 million per employee....

"…For Nvidia, after this latest run-up took it north of the $3T milestone, the company is being valued at more than $100M for each of its 29,600 employees (per its filing that counted up to the end of Jan 2024).

That’s more than 5x any of its big tech peers, and hundreds of times higher than more labor-intensive companies like Walmart and Amazon. It is worth noting that Nvidia has very likely done some hiring since the end of January — I think the company might be in growth mode — but even if the HR department has been working non-stop, Nvidia will still be a major outlier on this simple measure.

We are running out of ways to describe Nvidia’s recent run… but a nine-figure valuation per employee is a new one."

  • talEnglish
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    6 months ago

    kagis

    They probably aren’t hurting.

    Aside from any other forms of stock-based compensation or bonuses – which they probably aren’t gonna publish – looks like they’ve got an employee stock purchase plan.

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/money/espp/

    Enroll in our current ESPP offering during the month you’re hired or during an official enrollment period, which occurs in February or August. Elect to contribute from 1-15 percent of your salary through payroll deductions.

    Your offering price for NVIDIA ESPP gets set the first trading day after the month you’ve enrolled, and it remains the look-back price for up to 24 months.

    During these two years, there will be four purchase periods. Your contributions over each period will purchase our shares at a 15 percent discount.

    The company’s worth something like 200 times what it was in 2015.

    https://www.levels.fyi/companies/nvidia/salaries/software-engineer

    Software Engineer compensation in United States at Nvidia ranges from $178K per year for IC1 to $542K per year for IC6.

    If someone’s been maxing their ESPP out, just from that alone, they’re probably doing pretty well. You convert 15% of your salary into stock, and that 15% of your income from 2015 alone is worth ten years of income down the road, over a million.