I took the numbers from http://csimarket.com/Industry/Industry_Data.php?ind=1010, calculated the net income per employee and got the following numbers showing vast differences among the industry. Not surprisingly, size does not correlate with per capita earnings.
| Xilinx, Inc. |
$ 184,857 |
| INTEL CORPORATION |
$ 95,892 |
| LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION |
$ 80,606 |
| Analog Devices, Inc. |
$ 78,901 |
| Micron Technology, Inc. |
$ 68,511 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. |
$ 63,212 |
| TERADYNE, INC. |
$ 53,889 |
| NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION |
$ 51,552 |
| KLA-Tencor Corporation |
$ 10,120 |
| Broadcom Corporation |
$ 3,171 |
| Altera |
$ 1,493 |
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION |
$ 1,003 |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED |
$ 676 |
| NVIDIA CORPORATION |
$ 567 |
| MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC. |
$ 459 |
| MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC. |
$ 437 |
| ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. |
$ 76 |
| QLogic Corporation |
$ -86 |
| APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION |
$ -102 |
| PMC-Sierra, Inc. |
$ -186 |
