How many employees does Comcast have? Headcount by year from its 10-K

This page is for sellers sizing Comcast as an account, job seekers, analysts and anyone who needs a Comcast headcount they can cite. Every figure comes from Comcast Corporation's annual report on Form 10-K or its quarterly report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC, plus Versant Media Group's own 10-K for the spun-off networks. Comcast's fiscal year is the calendar year.

Comcast employees by year

Each 10-K gives the figure as "approximately", rounded to the nearest thousand; the changes are our arithmetic. Comcast reports headcount once a year. Its 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, filed October 22, 2026, doesn't give one, so the next figure is due with the 2026 10-K in early 2027.

Comcast employees by business, 2018 to 2022

Until 2022 the 10-K split the workforce among its three main businesses. The 10-Ks from 2023 on give only the total.

The three lines don't add to the total; corporate staff and other businesses make up the difference. Two patterns stand out. Cable Communications shrank by 15,000 in four years. NBCUniversal fell by 17,000 in 2020 and then recovered past its pre-pandemic level by 2021.

What the number includes

• Full-time equivalents. The 2025 10-K says: "As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 179,000 full-time and part-time employees calculated on a full-time equivalent basis." Two half-time workers count as one.
• Not freelancers. "We also use freelance and temporary employees in the normal course of our business." The 10-K lists them separately from the 179,000. Many of the writers, directors, actors and production crew on NBCUniversal's productions are freelance or temporary staff covered by industry-wide collective bargaining agreements.
• About 54,000 outside the US (30% of 179,000, our arithmetic), in over 30 countries, with the largest groups in the UK, Western Europe, East Asia and South Asia.
• Versant, at December 31, 2025. The count is two days before the Versant spin-off. Comcast's 10-K says the Versant businesses are included in its results for all periods presented.

What changed and why

• 2018: Sky. Comcast acquired Sky in the fourth quarter of 2018; the 10-K counted about 30,000 Sky employees at year-end.
• 2020: the pandemic. Comcast "implemented temporary workforce reductions, including employee furloughs at our theme parks, and incurred severance at some of our businesses." The workforce fell 22,000, mostly at NBCUniversal.
• 2021: the reopening. Headcount rose 21,000, back to 189,000, as NBCUniversal rehired.
• 2022 to 2025: gradual decline. The count fell 10,000 over four years, while the share outside the US held at about 30%. The 10-K mentions higher severance charges in the Media segment in 2024, without a number of roles.
• January 2, 2026: Versant. Comcast spun off Versant Media Group, which took cable networks including MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, E!, Syfy and Oxygen, plus Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and SportsEngine. Versant's own 10-K reports "approximately 4,400 full-time and part-time employees calculated on a full-time equivalent basis" at December 31, 2025, so Comcast without Versant was roughly 174,600 people at that date (our arithmetic).
• May 31, 2026: Sky Germany sold. The 10-Q records the sale of Sky's operations in Germany. It doesn't give their headcount.
• June 2026: another split announced. Comcast said it intends to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky, "comprised primarily of the Media, Studios and Theme Parks segments and the Sky businesses," with completion expected in mid-2027.

Revenue per employee

Comcast's 2025 revenue was $123,707 million. Divided by the year-end headcount, that's $123,707 million ÷ 179,000 = about $691,100 per employee (our calculation).

Revenue grew 2% from 2022 to 2025 while headcount fell 4%. By segment, Residential Connectivity & Platforms brought in $70.7 billion in 2025 and Business Services Connectivity $10.2 billion; within Content & Experiences, Media brought in $27.1 billion, Studios $11.3 billion and Theme Parks $9.8 billion, up 14% with the opening of Epic Universe in Orlando in May 2025. The US accounted for $95.1 billion, or 77% of revenue, against about 70% of employees.

Selling to a company of Comcast's size

General guidance on how a 175,000-person media and connectivity company buys, not a description of Comcast's internal processes.

• Pick the future company. After the planned 2027 spin-off, the broadband, wireless and business services operations stay in one company and NBCUniversal and Sky go to another. A multi-year deal should name which entity signs.
• Separate the businesses. A cable network, a film studio, a theme park and a broadband operation buy different things on different budgets.
• Expect separation work. Two spin-offs in two years mean IT, finance and HR teams are splitting systems and contracts. That creates projects, and also slows decisions on anything that isn't part of the separation.
• Find the regional owner. Connectivity operations and Sky's European businesses run regionally, so the decision maker may sit well below headquarters.

For a routine on an account this size, see enterprise account research. For another media company, compare Disney's headcount; for another US network operator, AT&T's.

Next step: use how to find decision makers to reach the budget owner inside a business this large.