Profits Margin . If they ' re pushing a Trillion dollars , but only earning 60 Million that ' s pretty awful margins . A margin is what percentage of the Net Revenue the company makes as Net Profit . Also , those are people that you are listing , which is not the company . Those are salaries and only loosely related to margin . Oil and Gas companies have an average margin of 6 . 4 % a v e r a g e p r o f i t m a r g i n c o mpanyoilgasdrillingsector . asp . That means for ever dollar of revenue the company makes , they only make a profit of 6 . 4 cents . The average profit margin in construction is around 9 %, as a reference . <| sep |> There might just be some of that as well . <| sep |> Hi , I am a volunteer at LoveYourself , and mostly volunteer at UNI .