I’m regularly asked by executives at high growth companies how to scale their IT team to grow with their growing company. They say, “I have ## of employees, how many IT employees should I have?” Or they ask, “When I get to ## people, how big should my IT department be?” Scaling IT at high growth companies isn’t a simple answer like one IT employee for every 50 or 100 employees. I’ve seen companies with 25 people on staff that need a full-time IT person and companies with 1,000+ employees across the country with no IT personnel on staff. It depends on the company’s need for technology, network knowledge, required response time, and many more factors.