The average American worker earns about $850 a week. Tim Cook, who reaped a reported windfall of $145 million in 2016, makes that much in just a few minutes, while it takes the company he runs, Apple, less than one second.
Comparing mom and pop to the iPhone juggernaut might make for catchy stats, but it’s a bit, well, apples to oranges, of course. So how about some perspective on how much Apple AAPL, -1.07% pockets relative to other Fortune 500 giants?
The Visual Capitalist blog highlighted this colorful chart from title-lending company TitleMax, which crunched the numbers from 2016 to illustrate just how much some of the world’s biggest companies earn relative to each other.
As you can see, banking giant JPMorgan Chase JPM, -0.42% is second at $782.14 per second, trailing Apple by a wide margin but ahead of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -0.79% and Wells Fargo WFC, -0.92% Alphabet GOOG, -0.60% GOOGL, -0.49% is the only other tech firm in the top five, bringing in $615.96 per second.
What’s the common thread here aside from the money pouring in?
“MBAs and hardened statisticians have been studying the Fortune 500 for commonalities for decades,” TitleMax’s Bonnie Gringer wrote. “The world’s wealthiest companies are typically all over the map, though. They’re young, old, agile, slow, established, online, admired, and hated.”