Revenue per employee metric

Ike Elliot runs a very interesting comparison among Companies in the Telecom arena as far as revenues per employee. I suggest you read the whole article on his Telecosm blog, but as a summary, the winner is:

Equinix

	Employees	Quarterly Communications Revenue (millions)	Quarterly Revenue Per Employee
Equinix	911	$ 172	$188,804
Level 3	5,965	$ 1,072	$179,715
Global Crossing, Limited	4,936	$ 630	$127,634
Cogent	431	$ 52	$120,650
Time Warner Telecom	2,859	$ 318	$111,228
Paetec	3,900	$ 404	$103,590
Verizon	235,000	$ 24,124	$102,655
ATT	310,000	$ 30,866	$ 99,568
XO	4,416	$ 361	$ 81,748

Note: For companies on this list other than Level 3, AT&T, Verizon, Paetec and Equinix, revenue is from the first quarter because the companies had not yet announced actual second quarter earnings yet. I did use Paetec's estimated 2nd quarter revenue range from their announcement last week to estimate revenue per employee for Paetec.