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How Many Employees Does Google Have? 90 Statistics for 2026

By Shane TranUpdated

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reports the employee count every quarter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. That filing is where the number comes from, and it covers everyone at Alphabet, not only the people working on Google products. The statistics below start with the latest count, then cover how the workforce grew, layoffs, pay, visas and where Googlers work.

Top Google Employee Statistics

  • Alphabet had 198,933 employees as of June 30, 2026. Alphabet

  • Alphabet had 190,820 employees as of December 31, 2025. Alphabet

  • Alphabet said it would cut approximately 12,000 roles in January 2023. Sundar Pichai

  • 75% of all new code at Google was AI-generated as of April 2026, Pichai said. Sundar Pichai

  • Alphabet’s median compensated employee earned $310,826 in 2025 annual total compensation. Alphabet

  • 34.1% of Google’s global workforce were women as of January 1, 2024. Google

  • More than 100,000 people worked full-time for Google in the U.S. at the end of 2025. Google

  • USCIS approved H-1B petitions for 5,552 Google beneficiaries in fiscal 2025. USCIS

1. How Many Employees Does Google Have?

The figures below are the ones Alphabet reports for the whole group in its filings.

  1. Alphabet had 198,933 employees as of June 30, 2026. Alphabet

Alphabet had 198,933 employees as of June 30, 2026

Source: Alphabet, Part I, Item 2

In Alphabet’s 10-K, the “extended workforce” means vendors, temporary staff and self-employed independent contractors working through outside partners.

  1. Alphabet had 190,820 employees as of December 31, 2025. Alphabet

  2. Alphabet reported 187,103 employees as of June 30, 2025. Alphabet

2. Google Employee Count Over the Years

Most years below are quoted from that year’s own annual report. The earliest figure comes from a registration statement, and the Motorola splits come from the annual report for that year.

In Alphabet’s and Google’s 10-Ks, the headcount label changed from “employees” (2004–2009) to “full-time employees” (2010–2019) and back to “employees” (2020 onward).

  1. Google had 2,292 employees at June 30, 2004, a registration statement filed that August shows. Google

  2. Google Inc. had 3,021 employees as of December 31, 2004. Google

  3. Google Inc. had 10,674 employees as of December 31, 2006. Google

  4. Google Inc. had 20,222 employees as of December 31, 2008. Google

  5. Google Inc. had 24,400 full-time employees as of December 31, 2010. Google

  6. Google Inc. had 53,861 full-time employees as of December 31, 2012. Google

How much of Google’s headcount came from Motorola?

Google owned Motorola for part of this period, and the filings say how many of those employees sat inside the totals above. The 10-K calls the units Motorola Mobile and Motorola Home.

  1. 11,113 of Google’s employees at the end of 2012 came from Motorola Mobile. The same sentence counts a further 5,204 from Motorola Home. Google

  2. Google Inc. had 47,756 full-time employees as of December 31, 2013. Google

  3. 3,894 of Google’s employees at the end of 2013 came from Motorola Mobile. The same filing reports total headcount of 47,756 that year. Google

  4. Google Inc. had 53,600 full-time employees as of December 31, 2014. Google

  5. Alphabet had 72,053 full-time employees as of December 31, 2016. Alphabet

  6. Alphabet had 98,771 full-time employees as of December 31, 2018. Alphabet

  7. Alphabet had 135,301 employees as of December 31, 2020. Alphabet

  8. Alphabet had 190,234 employees as of December 31, 2022. Alphabet

  9. Alphabet had 182,502 employees as of December 31, 2023. Alphabet

  10. Alphabet had 183,323 employees as of December 31, 2024. Alphabet

Google and Alphabet employee count, 2004 to 2025

Source: Google Inc., and Alphabet Inc. Form 10-K filings, FY2015–FY2025 (SEC EDGAR). Headcount as of December 31 of each year; grey marks the years filed by Google Inc., green the years filed by Alphabet

3. Google Headcount by Quarter (2024–2026)

Alphabet also prints the headcount in each quarterly results statement, which gives a closer view than the annual filing.

  1. Alphabet reported 179,582 employees as of June 30, 2024. Alphabet

  2. Alphabet reported 185,719 employees as of March 31, 2025. Alphabet

  3. Alphabet reported 190,167 employees as of September 30, 2025. Alphabet

  4. Alphabet reported 194,668 employees as of March 31, 2026. Alphabet

Alphabet employee count by quarter, Q1 2024 to Q2 2026

Source: Alphabet, Employees at each quarter end, as printed in the Supplemental Information table

4. Google Layoffs (2023–2026)

Google’s recent layoffs are documented in a public memo from the CEO, in the accounting notes of Alphabet’s filings, and in the layoff notices companies must file with the state of California.

How big were Google’s 2023 layoffs?

  1. Alphabet said it would cut approximately 12,000 roles in January 2023. CEO Sundar Pichai wrote that the cuts spanned Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions. Sundar Pichai

  2. Google said it would pay affected US employees through a notification period of a minimum of 60 days in 2023. Sundar Pichai

  3. Google’s 2023 US severance package started at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks per additional year. Sundar Pichai

  4. Affected US employees got at least 16 weeks of accelerated vesting on their Google Stock Units (GSUs) in 2023. Sundar Pichai

  5. Google offered 6 months of healthcare to US employees affected by the 2023 layoffs. The package also included job placement services and immigration support. Sundar Pichai

What did the layoffs cost Alphabet?

  1. Alphabet recorded $2.1 billion in employee severance and related charges in 2023. Substantially all affected employees were out of its headcount by year-end. Alphabet

Here’s how Alphabet’s 2023 severance and office space charges split by expense line, in $ millions:

Expense lineSeveranceOffice spaceTotal
Cost of revenues479481960
Research and development8488701,718
Sales and marketing497257754
General and administrative264237501
Total charges2,0881,8453,933

Source: Alphabet, p. 76. Severance includes amounts settled in cash and stock-based compensation

  1. Alphabet paid $1,579 million in cash for 2023 severance charges during that year. A $77 million severance liability remained at year-end. Alphabet

  2. Alphabet’s employee severance and related charges were $1.0 billion in 2024. The filing calls that a decrease of $1.1 billion from 2023. Alphabet

  3. Alphabet recorded $716 million in severance and related charges in Q1 2024. Alphabet

Google has also offered voluntary exit programmes to some teams.

Google told 9to5Google that its “voluntary exit program” let US-based Googlers on the Platforms & Devices team leave voluntarily with a severance package (9to5Google).

What do state layoff filings show?

Employers must notify California before a large layoff at a site in the state. Each notice names the company, the location and the number of workers. Every figure below adds up the notices that carry the same notice date, so none of them is a full year’s total.

  1. California WARN filings listed 953 Google employees for layoffs noticed January 20, 2023. California EDD WARN

  2. California WARN notices dated January 10, 2024 listed 628 Google layoffs in the state. California EDD WARN

  3. California WARN notices dated September 29, 2025 listed 50 Google layoffs in Sunnyvale. California EDD WARN

  4. California WARN notices dated January 26, 2026 listed 77 Google layoffs in Sunnyvale. California EDD WARN

5. Google, AI, and the Engineering Workforce

Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi said on the Q2 2026 earnings call (July 22, 2026) that Alphabet expects to “continue hiring in key investment areas such as AI and cloud” (Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings call transcript).

Google’s own statements about AI and engineering work are quoted below.

How much of Google’s new code is written by AI?

  1. 75% of all new code at Google was AI-generated as of April 2026, Pichai said. The code was approved by engineers. Sundar Pichai

  2. More than a quarter of all new code at Google was AI-generated in October 2024, Pichai said. It was then reviewed and accepted by engineers. Sundar Pichai

  3. Google estimates a 10% engineering velocity increase from AI, Pichai said in June 2025. He added that Google planned to hire more engineers the next year. Lex Fridman Podcast

6. Where Google Employees Work Around the World

The figures below come from Google’s own country pages, blog posts and statutory filings, in Google’s own wording. Some carry a date and some do not; the undated pages were read on the date at the top of this page. They are not slices of one total.

How many Google employees are in the US?

  1. More than 100,000 people worked full-time for Google in the U.S. at the end of 2025. Google

  2. Google has an office or data center in 26 U.S. states Google

How many Google employees work outside the US?

  1. Google has 7,000+ employees in the United Kingdom Google describes them as engineers, scientists and researchers. Google

  2. Google UK Limited employed 7,029 people on average during the year to 31 December 2024. Research and development accounted for 3,418 of them. Companies House

  3. More than 6,000 full-time employees work for Google in Ireland The statement came from Google’s Head of Google Ireland when the Dublin “Bakery” building was unveiled. Google

  4. About 5,900 people worked for Google in Ireland at the time of its 2024/25 statutory gender pay gap report. Google says the Google Ireland Limited entity employs the vast majority of them, about 94%. Google Ireland

In Google Ireland’s statutory report, the “binary gender pay gap” means the difference between men’s and women’s mean and median hourly pay, with men’s pay as the baseline (Google Ireland 2024/25 Binary Gender Pay Gap Report). Google notes the measure does not account for differences in roles.

  1. More than 5,000 Googlers work in Zurich, from 85 nationalities, on services including Gemini, Search and YouTube. Google’s Swiss page lists those services alongside the Zurich figure. Google

  2. More than 3,000 employees work for Google in Germany, across four sites. Google

  3. More than 500 Googlers work in Hamburg, Google’s German headquarters. Their roles include sales, marketing, communications, legal and partnerships. Google

  4. Over 3,000 Google employees work in Singapore Google calls Singapore a regional headquarters serving Asia-Pacific markets. Google

  5. Google’s Australian team has grown to over 2,000 people from one employee in 2002. Google says almost half of them work in engineering. Google

  6. Google Canada counted more than 2,500 Googlers in December 2021, at its 20-year mark. Google

  7. Google’s EMEA organization had over 25,000 employees and interns as described in a 2022 Google post. EMEA covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Google

7. Google Workforce Demographics

The figures here come from Google’s Diversity Annual Report. Two notes below explain the dates and labels it uses, because both differ from the quarterly headcount.

In Google’s Diversity Annual Report, “representation data” means the share of Googlers employed on January 1, 2024, while hiring and exit data cover all hires and departures during calendar 2023 (Google Diversity Annual Report 2024).

In Google’s Diversity Annual Report, gender figures are global by default while race figures are U.S. by default, with separate regional cuts for APAC, EMEA and “Americas (non-U.S.)” (Google Diversity Annual Report 2024). “Americas (non-U.S.)” covers every country Google operates in across North and South America except the United States.

How many of Google’s employees are women?

  1. 34.1% of Google’s global workforce were women as of January 1, 2024. Google

  2. 25.9% of Google’s global tech workforce were women as of January 1, 2024. Google

  3. 53.2% of Google’s global non-tech workforce were women as of January 1, 2024. Google

  4. 32.8% of Google’s global leadership were women as of January 1, 2024. Google

How diverse is Google’s US workforce?

In Google’s Diversity Annual Report, the “+” in labels such as Black+ or Asian+ means multiracial people are counted in every racial category they identify with (Google Diversity Annual Report 2024). Google says the individual percentages may therefore not add up exactly to the overall percentage.

  1. 45.7% of Google’s U.S. workforce identified as Asian+ as of January 1, 2024. Google

Here’s each group’s share of Google’s U.S. workforce as of January 1 of each year, 2020 to 2024:

Group20202021202220232024
Asian+41.942.343.244.845.7
White+51.750.448.346.245.3
Hispanic/Latinx+5.96.46.97.37.5
Black+3.74.45.35.65.7
Native American+0.80.80.80.80.9

Source: Google, p. 77. Multiracial Googlers are counted in every group they identify with, so Google notes the individual percentages may not add up exactly to the overall percentage

  1. 5.1% of Google’s U.S. leadership identified as Black+ as of January 1, 2024. The same leadership table shows White+ at 59.6% and Hispanic/Latinx+ at 4.3%. Google

  2. 90.7% of Google’s APAC workforce identified as Asian+ as of January 1, 2024. Google reports race outside the U.S. using globally self-identified data. Google

  3. 73.8% of Google’s EMEA workforce identified as White+ as of January 1, 2024. EMEA covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa in Google’s reporting. Google

  4. 35.2% of Googlers in APAC were women as of January 1, 2024. The same regional table reports EMEA at 34.3% and Americas (non-U.S.) at 33.4%. Google

  5. 6.7% of self-identifying Googlers globally reported having a disability in the 2024 report. The figure covers employees who self-identified through Google’s Self-ID initiative. Google

  6. 7.0% of self-identifying Googlers globally reported being LGBQ+ and/or Trans+ in the 2024 report. Google

  7. 34.8% of Google’s global hires were women during 2023. Hiring data in the report covers January 1 to December 31, 2023. Google

  8. 35.0% of Googlers who left globally were women during 2023. Google labels this series “exits representation”. Google

  9. 94% of Googlers globally were covered by Google’s 2024 pay equity analysis. Google says it raised pay for 553 employees, totaling about $2.9 million. Google

Share of Google’s workforce who are women, by role group, 2024

Source: Google, pp. 77–80. Global workforce representation as of January 1, 2024

8. Google and H-1B Visas

Google files H-1B petitions for foreign workers every year, and US Citizenship and Immigration Services publishes the decisions employer by employer.

In the USCIS data hub, each figure counts workers covered by an employer’s H-1B petitions, taken from the first decision USCIS made on each petition — not workers currently employed there.

How many H-1B approvals does Google get?

  1. USCIS approved H-1B petitions for 5,552 Google beneficiaries in fiscal 2025. The hub counts workers on petitions filed by Google LLC across six categories: new employment, continuation, change of employer, change with the same employer, new concurrent employment and amended petitions. USCIS

  2. USCIS approved H-1B petitions for 5,364 Google beneficiaries in fiscal 2024. USCIS

  3. Google LLC won 1,042 new-employment H-1B approvals in fiscal 2025. New employment means a first H-1B petition for that worker at Google, not an extension or a transfer. USCIS

  4. Google LLC won 3,350 H-1B continuation approvals in fiscal 2025. Continuations are extensions for workers already on an H-1B at Google. USCIS

  5. Google LLC won 715 change-of-employer H-1B approvals in fiscal 2025. These are workers who moved to Google from another H-1B employer. USCIS

  6. Google LLC won 410 amended H-1B approvals in fiscal 2025. Amended petitions cover changes to a job already approved, such as a new work location. USCIS

  7. Google LLC won 27 change-with-same-employer H-1B approvals in fiscal 2025. These cover changes in a worker’s role at the same employer. USCIS

  8. Google LLC won 8 new-concurrent-employment H-1B approvals in fiscal 2025. Concurrent employment means the worker also holds an H-1B job elsewhere. USCIS

  9. USCIS denied 42 Google H-1B continuation petitions in fiscal 2025. The hub records six new-employment denials for Google in the same year. USCIS

9. Google Employee Pay and Benefits

Alphabet discloses employee pay in two places: the proxy statement it sends shareholders each year, and the compensation notes in its 10-K and 10-Q filings.

Alphabet’s proxy identifies its “median employee” by analyzing all employees except the CEO as of December 31, 2025, using base salary and target bonus. Wages for part-year employees were annualized.

What does the median Google employee earn?

  1. Alphabet’s median compensated employee earned $310,826 in 2025 annual total compensation. Alphabet

  2. Alphabet’s CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio was 35 to 1 for 2025. Alphabet

  3. Alphabet’s median compensated employee earned $331,894 in 2024 annual total compensation. The same disclosure put the CEO’s 2024 total compensation at $10,725,043. Alphabet

  4. Alphabet’s CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio was 32 to 1 for 2024. Alphabet

What does Google’s CEO earn?

  1. Sundar Pichai’s 2025 total compensation was $10,906,079, per Alphabet’s Summary Compensation Table. His 2025 salary was $2,007,692 and he received no stock awards that year. Alphabet

The table shows 2025 pay for five Alphabet executives, in dollars:

ExecutiveSalaryStock awardsOtherTotal
Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer2,007,692—8,898,38710,906,079
Anat Ashkenazi, Chief Financial Officer1,003,84630,171,07084,11531,259,031
Ruth M. Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer1,003,84628,123,53211,75029,139,128
Philipp Schindler, Chief Business Officer, Google1,003,84640,577,554620,15142,201,551
Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer1,003,84628,123,53211,75029,139,128

Source: Alphabet, p. 50

  1. $8,803,400 of Pichai’s 2025 pay was for personal security, per Alphabet’s compensation table footnote. Alphabet

  2. Sundar Pichai’s 2024 total compensation was $10,800,694, as updated in Alphabet’s latest proxy. The update added $75,651 for personal use of company aircraft omitted from the prior proxy. Alphabet

  3. Sundar Pichai’s 2022 total compensation was $225,985,145, including $218,037,684 in stock awards. Alphabet

What benefits do Google employees get?

  1. Alphabet’s 401(k) company match maxed at $11,750 per employee in 2025, under its US retirement plan. The match equals the greater of 100% of contributions up to $3,000 or 50% of contributions up to $23,500, and is fully vested at contribution. Alphabet

  2. Alphabet’s 401(k) company match maxed at $11,500 per employee in 2024. Alphabet

  3. Google provided $9.7 million in pay adjustments to 10,677 Googlers after its 2018 pay equity analysis. The 2018 analysis covered 91 percent of Googlers. Google

  4. Google increased pay for 2 percent of employees, totaling $5.1 million, in its 2019 pay equity review. That review covered 93 percent of Googlers worldwide. Google

How much does Alphabet spend on stock compensation?

Alphabet’s 10-K defines “stock-based compensation” as primarily Alphabet restricted stock units, measured at fair market value on the grant date.

  1. Alphabet’s total stock-based compensation expense was $27.1 billion in 2025. Of that, $24.1 billion related to awards expected to settle in Alphabet stock. Alphabet

  2. Alphabet had $42.9 billion of unrecognized compensation cost tied to unvested restricted stock units (RSUs) as of December 31, 2025. It is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average 2.6 years. Alphabet

  3. Alphabet recorded $15.2 billion in stock-based compensation expense in the first half of 2026. The comparable six-month figure for 2025 was $11.5 billion. Alphabet

Conclusion

Alphabet files the headcount every quarter, so this is a number you can pin to a date instead of estimating. It counts employees, and the filings describe an extended workforce of vendors, temporary staff and contractors alongside them. The country, demographic, visa and pay figures come from separate reports with their own dates, so they rarely line up with the quarterly count. We will update this page as new filings come out.