sales-per-employee ratio
sales-per-employee ratio
a measure of a firm's sales/size relation, that expresses the firm's SALES REVENUE as a ratio of its size measured in terms of number of employees. Where a company employs a high proportion of part-time workers, employee numbers may need to be adjusted to full-time equivalent numbers to assist comparability. Alternatively sales may be expressed as a proportion of total employee remuneration.It is useful to compare sales per employee in a firm with the company's average employee remuneration.