Once the startup begins scaling, leaders from each team start asking for more resources (e.g. we just signed 10 more customers, let’s hire another person to do ‘X’). Only, outside the budget, it’s difficult to assess the overall efficiency. One of the best metrics to track efficiency is revenue per employee.
According to the 2016 Pacific Crest SaaS Company Survey Benchmarks, the median SaaS revenue per employee is $136,000:
Over time, the revenue per employee changes as the startup scales from pre-revenue through to seed stage and beyond. Each milestone often has a higher revenue per employee with ones at the expansion stage typically having $200,000 or more in revenue per employee.
Entrepreneurs would do well to track their own revenue per employee and benchmark it against other startups of similar size and scale.
What else? What are some more thoughts on using revenue per employee to evaluate the efficiency of the startup?
David Cummings on Startups 
As a bootstrapped businesses my favorite metric is earnings per employee.