J&J holds its own on sales per employee

The 11 companies that make up “big pharma” are in reality vastly different in size, notably so on employee numbers. Starting with Abbvie and Bristol-Myers Squibb at a mere 30,000 staff members, the stats range up to Johnson & Johnson’s 132,200; for years only Novartis came close to matching the US conglomerate but the sale of Alcon saw the Swiss firm become a much smaller employer.