This can fluctuate depending on the state of the economy, potentially playing havoc with employee wealth.
"Vignette has created about $3 billion worth of employee wealth," he noted with pride.
"We report everything we're doing regarding employee wealth in the press," Liu replied.
Since the internal share price is based on profit growth, employee wealth suffers if profits drag.
By the time this work was painted, the once-independent orthodox artists had become court employees, bringing wealth to themselves and luster to the dynasty they served.
He said that Facebook employees with wealth exceeding $20 million had found advisers to help them manage the complexity, while those with a couple of million dollars were trying to figure it out themselves.
Mackey had little idea what a mission statement should look like, but the resulting stakeholder model and guiding principles -- sell quality food, please customers, satisfy employees, create wealth, respect the environment and conduct a responsible business, all at the same time -- have served the company well for more than 20 years.
Older employees and the wealth of experience they bring is a hugely valuable resource: don't assume that you know more than them because you are the manager.
While brokerage firm executives have long invested in partnerships sponsored by their firms, allocations to analysts are a way for a firm to allow these important employees to "create wealth in addition to their actual cash compensation," said Joan C. Zimmerman, an executive vice president at G. Z. Stephens, an executive placement firm.
Early next year, for example, JPMorgan Chase will be moving employees in its wealth management division out of leased space that it occupies from the fourth floor through the 12th floor at 345 Park Avenue, a soaring skyscraper that occupies an entire city block running from 51st to 52nd Street, and from Park Avenue to Lexington Avenue.
