“…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.”
jherazob@beehaw.org 6 months ago
“Are the employees gonna see a cent of this?”
“Fuck, no!”
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Well, they technically will see SOME cents of this because I’m pretty sure Nvidia gives employees stocks too.
But yeah, I also posted this because it’s a clear illustration of how most salaries will never reflect the value your labour brings to an organization.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Or more accurately, it’s a clear illustration of how overvalued they are right now.
But as the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
sonori@beehaw.org 6 months ago
I don’t think many people would claim overall valuation has much of anything to do with the value labor brings to an organization.
In this case I think all it indicates is just how much the company’s stock price is driven by speculation about possible demand for generative AI, and even then I’m not sure that current price per share times number of shares divided by number of employees is a clear indication of that.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’ll just leave this here.
businessinsider.com/nvidia-employees-rich-happy-p…
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That is the most… American thing I read in months. Workers complaining about half decent work conditions. As a European, being harder to get hired than to get fired was always a given to me, and I believe that’s a good thing.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Brilliant, thanks for this!
I said in a comment on mastodon that I don’t think the batch of newer employees hired at Nvidia are going to have anywhere near the same compensation as the current employees will, and this kind of helps support my suspicions…
floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
archive.is/YBMgY