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Employee Count

Employee count is Metrika's first company-shaped datapoint: for any public LinkedIn company page, the API returns how many people list the company as their employer, alongside the page's follower count, in the same response shape as every other datapoint.

Why employee counts are useful

Company size is one of the first facts anyone wants about a business. Sales teams use it to segment and qualify leads, because a twelve-person startup and a five-thousand-person enterprise need very different conversations. Analysts and investors track it over time, because hiring is one of the least fakeable growth signals a company emits. And if you are enriching a CRM or building a company directory, headcount is usually a required column.

Precise numbers, not brackets

A LinkedIn company page displays headcount as a bracket, such as "501-1,000 employees". The figure LinkedIn holds underneath is more precise than that, and it is the one Metrika returns: 606 rather than "501-1,000".

Worth being clear about what the number means: it counts LinkedIn members who currently list the company as their employer. That tracks real headcount closely for most companies, though it can lag departures and misses employees who are not on LinkedIn at all. Treat it as the platform's own figure rather than an audited payroll count.

What you get back

Employee count applies to LinkedIn company pages, so request the organization type. It comes back under metrics, next to followers:

json 
{
  "data": [
    {
      "platform": "linkedin",
      "type": "organization",
      "identifier": "nasa",
      "status": "available",
      "metrics": {
        "followers": { "value": 5400000, "status": "available" },
        "employees": { "value": 18500, "status": "available" }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Like every datapoint it carries its own status and a collected_at timestamp, so you always know how fresh the figure is. Datapoint coverage varies by platform; the docs list exactly what is available for each one.

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