AECOM and Per Employee Valuation

AECOM has a per employee valuation of $50,000 ($5 billion valuation divided by 100,000 employees).  From Martin Ford's Rise of The Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future and how "green" the other side of the mountain can be:

"YouTube was founded in 2005 by three people.  Less than two years later, the company was purchased by Google for about $1.65 billion.  At the time of its acquisition, YouTube employed a mere sixty-five people, the majority of them highly skilled engineers.  That works out to a valuation of over $25 million per employee.  In April 2012, Facebook acquired photo-sharing start-up Instagram for $1 billion.  The company employed thirteen people. That's roughly $77 million per worker.  Fast-forward another two years to February 2014 and Facebook once again stepped up to the plate, this time purchasing mobile messaging company WhatsApp for $19 billion.  WhatsApp had a workforce of fifty-five - giving it a valuation of a staggering $345 million per employee."

If you are an AECOM engineer and you stop by a Starbucks in the morning for coffee, keep in mind they have a per employee valuation of approximately $366,000.