Valve Pays Million-Dollar Salaries

Valve employed only 336 people in 2021, but spent over $444 million on gross salaries Published by Evgeny Obedkov Tags: Steam, Valve Valve is still a private company, so most information about its operations and finances remains undisclosed. But thanks to new court documents, we can now get a glimpse of some of the internal data. >Be Valve >Have a monopoly on PC gaming with just 336 people >Average employee makes over $1.3 MILLION dollars a year Why is this allowed?

A screenshot of an article about Valve employing only 336 people while spending over $444 million on salaries, paired with an image of the Heavy from Team Fortress 2 holding a sandwich beside the Valve logo. The joke mocks Valve’s huge revenue and monopoly-like position despite its small workforce, exaggerating the average salary to portray the company as absurdly profitable. It is used as a reaction to corporate wealth, tech industry inequality, or Valve’s dominance of PC gaming.

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