yourfairshare.info has data on 1,700+ publicly traded companies. Search your employer, or any US employer, and see how much profit they made per employee last year, and what your share would be if it were split evenly. There is also data on buybacks and dividends so you can see what employees could have gotten if the profits they worked to make went to them instead of the stock market (yeah yeah I’m aware many employees have some stock yeah yeah I’m aware most American households have at least some stock holdings, but the numbers are big dudes).
Some examples (profit per employee / buyback+dividend spend per employee):
- Walmart: $10,425 / $7,428
- Starbucks: $3,925 / $7,487
- Target: $8,313 / $6,085
- Home Depot: $29,653 / $19,372
- FedEx: $8,792 / $5,216
Huh? Starbucks sent more to Wall St. than it made in profit? Yup, that’s legal in our system!
McDonald’s is a real estate and franchising company. They own the buildings, and they run the franchising system. While there are corporate run locations, they’re a vast minority.
The person who made your McDouble is almost certainly not an employee of McDonald’s, and that is reflected in the numbers.
Fair point, it’s not like the others, removed.