• etchinghillside
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    Im struggling to convince myself if I should read the article and see if some actual numbers were ever mentioned.

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      There are no actual numbers. There are gross payroll numbers and number of employees per high level department, but no indication of how that’s distributed or if it includes things like benefits. Basically useless info in a vacuum

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      Valve employee data, 2003 - 2021 Year Category [Presumably: Gross pay] [Presumably: Number of employees] 2003 Admin $454,142 5 2004 Admin $548,833 8 2005 Admin $11,644,172 9 2006 Admin $7,905,166 11 2007 Admin $1,997,107 12 2008 Admin $19,519,296 14 2009 Admin $20,300,752 18 2010 Admin $34,754,590 19 2011 Admin $35,216,732 22 2012 Admin $68,925,186 24 2013 Admin $48,462,690 20 2014 Admin $90,406,510 23 2015 Admin $91,496,697 24 2016 Admin $95,444,499 35 2017 Admin $83,146,640 38 2018 Admin $103,479,550 39 2019 Admin $109,720,296 39 2020 Admin $118,435,121 39 2021 Admin $157,999,567 35 2003 Games $3,933,064 57 2004 Games $4,471,342 61 2005 Games $18,122,549 81 2006 Games $17,260,260 97 2007 Games $12,768,984 100 2008 Games $39,677,549 136 2009 Games $44,076,164 148 2010 Games $66,201,302 173 2011 Games $68,173,834 175 2012 Games $135,484,323 186 2013 Games $107,654,658 188 2014 Games $152,351,554 185 2015 Games $181,769,451 160 2016 Games $174,660,830 175 2017 Games $221,488,403 184 2018 Games $216,249,204 192 2019 Games $236,798,782 201 2020 Games $199,306,798 189 2021 Games $192,355,985 181 2003 Steam $1,038,091 16 2004 Steam $1,113,136 16 2005 Steam $2,840,825 23 2006 Steam $3,424,485 29 2007 Steam $3,128,634 34 2008 Steam $5,053,283 40 2009 Steam $7,339,922 51 2010 Steam $17,732,609 60 2011 Steam $16,369,045 101 2012 Steam $42,966,257 127 2013 Steam $44,515,505 128 2014 Steam $52,338,579 119 2015 Steam $72,391,837 142 2016 Steam $56,390,975 125 2017 Steam $64,945,395 102 2018 Steam $70,814,165 82 2019 Steam $66,481,253 80 2020 Steam $71,752,682 82 2021 Steam $76,446,633 79 2011 Hardware $2,252,828 7 2012 Hardware $3,460,641 14 2013 Hardware $5,369,203 20 2014 Hardware $10,180,424 27 2015 Hardware $12,396,140 27 2016 Hardware $11,001,217 36 2017 Hardware $16,724,365 39 2018 Hardware $19,578,951 47 2019 Hardware $15,831,572 47 2020 Hardware $12,008,996 31 2021 Hardware $17,706,376 41

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        needed some formatting:

        Valve employee data, 2003 - 2021
        Year Category [Presumably: Gross pay] [Presumably: Number of employees]
        2003 Admin $454,142 5
        2004 Admin $548,833 8
        2005 Admin $11,644,172 9
        2006 Admin $7,905,166 11
        2007 Admin $1,997,107 12
        2008 Admin $19,519,296 14
        2009 Admin $20,300,752 18
        2010 Admin $34,754,590 19
        2011 Admin $35,216,732 22
        2012 Admin $68,925,186 24
        2013 Admin $48,462,690 20
        2014 Admin $90,406,510 23
        2015 Admin $91,496,697 24
        2016 Admin $95,444,499 35
        2017 Admin $83,146,640 38
        2018 Admin $103,479,550 39
        2019 Admin $109,720,296 39
        2020 Admin $118,435,121 39
        2021 Admin $157,999,567 35

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        2003 Games $3,933,064 57
        2004 Games $4,471,342 61
        2005 Games $18,122,549 81
        2006 Games $17,260,260 97
        2007 Games $12,768,984 100
        2008 Games $39,677,549 136
        2009 Games $44,076,164 148
        2010 Games $66,201,302 173
        2011 Games $68,173,834 175
        2012 Games $135,484,323 186
        2013 Games $107,654,658 188
        2014 Games $152,351,554 185
        2015 Games $181,769,451 160
        2016 Games $174,660,830 175
        2017 Games $221,488,403 184
        2018 Games $216,249,204 192
        2019 Games $236,798,782 201
        2020 Games $199,306,798 189
        2021 Games $192,355,985 181

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        2003 Steam $1,038,091 16
        2004 Steam $1,113,136 16
        2005 Steam $2,840,825 23
        2006 Steam $3,424,485 29
        2007 Steam $3,128,634 34
        2008 Steam $5,053,283 40
        2009 Steam $7,339,922 51
        2010 Steam $17,732,609 60
        2011 Steam $16,369,045 101
        2012 Steam $42,966,257 127
        2013 Steam $44,515,505 128
        2014 Steam $52,338,579 119
        2015 Steam $72,391,837 142
        2016 Steam $56,390,975 125
        2017 Steam $64,945,395 102
        2018 Steam $70,814,165 82
        2019 Steam $66,481,253 80
        2020 Steam $71,752,682 82
        2021 Steam $76,446,633 79

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        2011 Hardware $2,252,828 7
        2012 Hardware $3,460,641 14
        2013 Hardware $5,369,203 20
        2014 Hardware $10,180,424 27
        2015 Hardware $12,396,140 27
        2016 Hardware $11,001,217 36
        2017 Hardware $16,724,365 39
        2018 Hardware $19,578,951 47
        2019 Hardware $15,831,572 47
        2020 Hardware $12,008,996 31
        2021 Hardware $17,706,376 41

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      "Hardware,” to my surprise, has been a relatively small part of the company, with just 41 employees paid a gross of more than $17 million in 2021

      That’s the only one I saw that meant anything that useful. They have ~10x that for game development but no indication of number of people there, and 79 people working on Steam.

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        Number of employees working on games is in the list at the bottom of the article. 181 as of 2021.