10-Q Watch: Apple Ups Headcount And Spending On R&D; Fadell Will Receive Salary For Advisory Role

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) filed its annual report for the 2008 fiscal year with the SEC today, and after combing through the 93-page document, we found a few items worth noting. Here’s the highlights:

Employees: At the end the year, the company had about 32,000 full-time equivalent employees and an additional 3,100 temporary equivalent employees and contractors. That increased tremendously from the year ago period when the company employed 21,600 full-time employees, and 2,100 temps. This may have been driven in part by new store openings. The Company opened 50 new retail stores in 2008, bringing the total number of open stores to 247 as of September 27, 2008.

On Tony Fadell’s departure: On Monday, we learned that Fadell, Apple’s SVP of the iPod division, was leaving for personal reasons. In his new role, he will serve as special advisor to Steve Jobs. Fadell will receive a salary of $300,000 annually, and will be entitled to bonus and other health and welfare benefits generally available to other senior managers until March 24, 2010.

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