Comments on: How much do Apple employees earn?

By: cortesr

cortesr — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:59:44 +0000

Interesting article Felix

By: Danny_Black

Danny_Black — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:15:37 +0000

FifthDecade, will happily bet that the senior management of Apple are paying less as a percentage in tax than the proverbial cleaning lady at Apple.

By: Publius

Publius — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:05:10 +0000

Income from option exercise is only a long-term gain if you buy the stock and hold it for a year or more. If you sell it right away you are taxed on the difference b/t the exercise price and the strike price as if it were ordinary income.

By: Publius

Publius — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:04:31 +0000

By: TFF

TFF — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:54:47 +0000

FifthDecade, how are options grants taxed? As income or as long-term capital gains?

That is really the question…

By: FifthDecade

FifthDecade — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:56:19 +0000

I don’t care how much they earn, but I bet they pay more than 15% tax!

By: Durjanbhai

Durjanbhai — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:47:38 +0000

Raises an interesting point of why Apple remains a public company right? Shareholders in Apple have been rewarded with share price appreciation, but it has been employees who have been the real winners. And this would not have been possible if Apple had been a private firm.

By: rjs0

rjs0 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:36:58 +0000

what about the slave labor making their products at Foxconn in china?

http://marketwatch666.blogspot.com/2012/ 01/get-your-kindles-iphones-ipads-xboxes .html

By: KenG_CA

KenG_CA — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:04:54 +0000

LucasW, guanix, MS did get preferred shares for that investment, but they exchanged them for 18 million shares of common, which they have sold off.

I don’t understand why what Apple pays its employees is big news. They’re competitive, so what’s the problem? Do they have to pay more? People seem happy there, and they design great products. If they were unhappy, most would be able to get jobs elsewhere.

But then it might be hard to sell a book if you say things like that.

By: Btherm

Btherm — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:55:58 +0000

Microsoft’s 1997 Apple investment was structured as 150,000 shares of Apple Series-A, nonvoting, convertible (after Aug 2000 at $8.25/common share) preferred stock worth $150 million.

By end of 2001, Microsoft had converted all preferred into 18.2 million common shares…and then exited its investment entirely by end of 2003.

[Note, these shares would equate to 36.4 million common shares on a post-split (Feb 2005) basis.]

Regards,
The Coventry League

By: guanix

guanix — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:25:38 +0000

Apple history nitpick: My sources say Apple 55.3 million shares outstanding at their IPO.

@LucasW: Wasn’t that preferred stock?

By: LucasW

LucasW — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:56:54 +0000

Surely Microsoft got some shares issued when they invested $150M in 1997? http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.ht ml

That’s probably at most a few tens of millions of shares, but not nothing…