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You can find something similar in consulting businesses:

- Mckinsey Revenue: $10.B, Employees: 30.000 -> Revenue per employee: $333K

- Accenture Revenue: $50B, Employees: 674,000 -> Revenue per employee: $74K

I think this just shows how underpaid so many people at Accenture must be. You figure out of nearly 3/4 of a million employees, they must have several hundred, maybe a thousand or more executives making $200-500k/yr in salary. There must be a ton of consultants doing the grunt work for $30-50k to make that feasible.

Given that Accenture does a ton of outsourcing, I'd imagine it is a magnitude less than $30-50k.

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