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Steam is massive, but far fewer people work at Valve than you might think


Court documents have revealed detailed employment statistics for Valve, the company behind ubiquitous PC storefront Ste…

Newscast: Does the loss of day one launches make Xbox Game Pass pointless? As laid out by The Verge, Valve's 79 staff working on Steam were paid a combined $76,446,633 - so, an average of $967k each. Back to Valve, and while the numbers above are just averages, and also three years out of date, it's worth noting that Valve's own public employee handbook claims the company offers "profitability per employee... higher than that of Google or Amazon or Microsoft".

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