The following Fortune 500 companies could give each of their employees a $50k bonus in 2021 and still make a healthy profit. The remaining profit they’d keep after awarding the bonuses is shown in parentheses. (Currency is USD.)
- Apple ($50.1 billion)
- Toyota Motor ($2.9 billion)
- Berkshire Hathaway ($24.5 billion)
- Saudi Aramco ($45.3 billion)
- Samsung Electronics ($8.7 billion)
- Ping An Insurance ($2.6 billion)
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China ($23.8 billion)
- Alphabet ($33.5 billion)
- China Construction Bank ($20.6 billion)
- Cigna ($4.8 billion)
- Agricultural Bank of China ($8.2 billion)
- Trafigura Group ($1.3 billion)
- Microsoft ($36.1 billion)
- Allianz ($242.8 million)
- Bank of China ($12.5 billion)
- JPMorgan Chase ($16.4 billion)
- Verizon Communications ($11.2 billion)
- Anthem ($402.0 million)
- Fannie Mae ($11.4 billion)
- Alibaba Group Holding ($9.7 billion)
- Comcast ($2.1 billion)
- Amer International Group ($842.7 million)
- Bank of America ($7.3 billion)
- Citigroup ($539.4 million)
- Facebook ($26.2 billion)
- Sony ($5.6 billion)
- China National Offshore Oil ($799.5 million)
- Johnson & Johnson ($8.0 billion)
- State Farm Insurance ($859.8 million)
- Intel ($15.4 billion)
- Humana ($932.0 million)
- Mitsui ($939.0 million)
- Dai-ichi Life Holdings ($190.4 million)
- Procter & Gamble ($8.1 billion)
- Tencent Holdings ($18.9 billion)
- MetLife ($3.1 billion)
- Bank of Communications ($6.9 billion)
- Country Garden Holdings ($380.6 million)
- Freddie Mac ($7.0 billion)
- Lockheed Martin ($1.1 billion)
- Roche Group ($10.2 billion)
- Legal & General Group ($1.6 billion)
- Aviva ($2.1 billion)
- China Merchants Bank ($9.6 billion)
- Zurich Insurance Group ($1.2 billion)
- Manulife Financial ($2.5 billion)
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ($429.9 million)
- HP ($194.0 million)
- SoftBank Group ($44.1 billion)
- Prudential PLC ($1.2 billion)
- Fortum ($1.1 billion)
- Goldman Sachs Group ($7.4 billion)
- Industrial Bank ($6.7 billion)
- Shanghai Pudong Development Bank ($5.4 billion)
- Morgan Stanley ($7.6 billion)
- Indian Oil ($1.2 billion)
- AIA Group ($4.6 billion)
- KDDI ($3.8 billion)
- Novartis ($2.8 billion)
- Cisco Systems ($7.3 billion)
- China Minsheng Banking ($2.0 billion)
- Merck ($3.4 billion)
- Oil & Natural Gas ($684.0 million)
- AbbVie ($2.3 billion)
- Royal Bank of Canada ($4.3 billion)
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ($14.5 billion)
- Allstate ($3.5 billion)
- Rio Tinto Group ($7.4 billion)
- GlaxoSmithKline ($2.7 billion)
- BHP Group ($6.4 billion)
- Progressive ($3.5 billion)
- Sanofi ($9.1 billion)
- Pfizer ($5.7 billion)
- Vale ($1.2 billion)
- Toronto-Dominion Bank ($4.4 billion)
- ThyssenKrupp ($5.5 billion)
- UBS Group ($3.0 billion)
- Oracle ($3.4 billion)
- Iberdrola ($2.3 billion)
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ($498.4 million)
- USAA ($2.1 billion)
- Chubb ($2.0 billion)
- Xiaomi ($1.8 billion)
- Taikang Insurance Group ($638.6 million)
- Sunac China Holdings ($1.9 billion)
- KB Financial Group ($1.6 billion)
- British American Tobacco ($5.4 billion)
- Exelon ($346.0 million)
- Coca-Cola ($3.7 billion)
- Bank of Nova Scotia ($437.8 million)
- Credit Suisse Group ($404.9 million)
- Sun Life Financial ($671.9 million)
- Thermo Fisher Scientific ($2.2 billion)
- 3M ($634.6 million)
- Travelers ($1.2 billion)
- Fubon Financial Holding ($847.0 million)
- Capital One Financial ($114.8 million)
- Bharat Petroleum ($1.7 billion)
- SAP ($741.0 million)
- Mizuho Financial Group ($1.7 billion)
- Takeda Pharmaceutical ($1.2 billion)
- New China Life Insurance ($256.1 million)
- Samsung Life Insurance ($809.4 million)
- Enbridge ($1.9 billion)
- Philip Morris International ($4.5 billion)
- Phoenix Group Holdings ($640.8 million)
- LyondellBasell Industries ($460.0 million)
- Enterprise Products Partners ($3.4 billion)
- SK Hynix ($2.2 billion)
- Longfor Group Holdings ($1.1 billion)
- Boehringer Ingelheim ($891.8 million)
- ViacomCBS ($1.2 billion)
- China Resources Land ($1.9 billion)
- Bank of Montreal ($1.6 billion)
- Amgen ($6.0 billion)
- U.S. Bancorp ($1.6 billion)
- Netflix ($2.3 billion)
- Eli Lilly ($4.4 billion)
- Truist Financial ($1.8 billion)
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia ($4.3 billion)
This is crazy, but you really need to add your sources. Without being able to back up these claims it just looks like an angry guy on the internet. I 100% support anitwork, but many will not take these posts seriously without sources to verify the info.
(P.S. The text as I type here appears white, which means I can’t see it. Any way you could alter this?)
The Fortune Magazine website contains stats for all the Fortune 500 companies.
https://fortune.com/fortune500/2021/search/
This includes their total profits and number of employees. If you just multiply their number of employees by 50,000, then you can see how much it would cost to give all their employees a $50,000 bonus.