Since the components of each company are very different, it is impossible to make a clear overall comparison between companies. Therefore, although the Wall Street Journal tried to compare among large American companies, it pointed out that it could not effectively calculate an average. For example, in Apple Or the average salary Google earns is meaningless, because there will be very high earners like Tim Cook on the board, and retail workers of $22 an hour on the same list.
In view of these problems, the Wall Street Journal is still trying to draw some conclusions from the wage data it collects. It does this by calculating all the different wage levels and taking the median approach. Theoretically, this method only considers how many different salary levels are higher or lower than it, but there is only one CEO position and dozens of different categories of retail personnel.
According to this method, the median salary of apple in 2021 is $68254, which is 18% higher than the previous year, according to the Wall Street Journal. It also pointed out that Apple has about 154000 employees, including the retail business. Alphabet, which owns Google, has a very similar number of employees, 156600. However, its median wage is a larger $295884, which is said to have increased by 8% last year.
For comparison, Facebook's median salary in 2021 increased by 11% to $292785, involving 71970 employees. Twitter's was $232626, and its 7500 employees rose 13 percent. According to the Wall Street Journal, the median salary of employees of Google's parent company alphabet Inc. and Facebook's meta platforms Inc. is the highest, almost $300000.