Jane Street's 3,500 employees generated $9m each in profits last year

Working for Jane Street has always been lucrative. And now it seems to be more lucrative than ever before. 

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Bloomberg reported today that Jane Street's 3,500 employees generated $39.6bn in revenues and $31.2bn in EBITDA last year. As the chart below shows, this works out at $9m of profits per individual employee and $11m in revenues.

Jane Street isn't commenting on how much it spent compensating these 3,500 highly productive. Historically, however, it has spent 20% of revenues on compensation, which implies that the average employee there earned $2.3m for 2025.

Jane Street's people weren't always so impressive. Three years ago, they generated $4m each in revenues per head. Last year, they generated $11.3m. 

As things stand, Jane Street's employees appear to be both paid more and to be more productive than the 1,800 people at Citadel Securities.

How can this be? Like Citadel Securities, Jane Street is an electronic trading firm providing liquidity to the market. Unlike Citadel Securities, Jane Street is also thought to engage in proprietary trading and to take positions on its own book. It helps that it has a successful side-operation as a venture capital firm, and last year made $830m in gains on its VC bets in the third quarter alone (largely by virtue of its holding in Anthropic).

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