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Google's annual revenue was $110 billion in 2017 [1]. Even if headcount doubled and salary has increased, that's $7 billion a year. That's not peanuts, but at a company level it's not a massive expense.

[1]: https://www.androidauthority.com/alphabet-q4-2017-earnings-8...

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True. I'm also guessing this number changes a lot with stock grants (that number was just base pay), and that yearly number seems pretty low (NYT has the entry level engineer at 124,000 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/technology/google-salarie...) so glassdoor might not have good data.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was much more than 6%.

I also wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 6% - but I very much doubt it could be over 12-15%. That's still not a very high percentage of revenue. It's most definitely a significant cost, but unlikely to be their biggest cost.

Anytime Pull out the revenue gun. It sounds like the revenue is actually produced by the machines though. I wonder why there isn't another search company competing with Google...

Btw, if you use glass door to deduce Google's cost on employee, you probably have no idea how company works...

lol yeah I know, but it's at least the low bar. I would guess employees are one of the largest expenses for Google.

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