How many employees does Exxon have? ExxonMobil regular employees by year

This page is for sellers sizing ExxonMobil as an account, analysts comparing energy companies, and anyone who needs a citable headcount. Every figure comes from Exxon Mobil Corporation's annual report on Form 10-K. Its fiscal year is the calendar year.

ExxonMobil employees by year

ExxonMobil reported one decimal place until the 2019 10-K and rounds to the nearest thousand since.

What the number includes

The 2025 10-K says: "The number of regular employees was 58 thousand, 61 thousand, and 62 thousand at years ended 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. Regular employees are defined as active executive, management, professional, technical, administrative, and wage employees who work full time or part time for the Corporation and are covered by the Corporation's benefit plans and programs."

• Full-time and part-time employees count, if they're in ExxonMobil's benefit plans.
• Contractors don't. The definition excludes anyone not on ExxonMobil's plans. The 2020 10-K shows how much that matters: its workforce reduction programs covered "both voluntary and involuntary employee separations and reductions in contractors."
• Retail station staff don't. The 2019 10-K said regular employees "do not include employees of the company-operated retail sites (CORS). The number of CORS employees is not significant."
• Mostly outside the US. The 2025 10-K says "over 59 percent of our global employees" are from outside the US and more than 160 nationalities are represented. That leaves fewer than about 24,000 US employees (our calculation). It doesn't give a country table.
• Long careers. ExxonMobil says its career employees have "an average length of service of about 30 years."

What changed and why

• 2020 and 2021: down 11.9 thousand. The 2020 10-K says ExxonMobil "conducted an extensive global review of staffing levels and subsequently commenced targeted workforce reductions within a number of countries to improve efficiency and reduce costs," with programs in Europe, North America and Australia and $450 million of before-tax charges in 2020. The 2021 10-K says the completed programs would save about $2 billion a year compared with 2019 "from lower employee and contractor costs." The count fell from 74.9 thousand to 63 thousand.
• 2024: an acquisition without a rise. ExxonMobil acquired Pioneer Natural Resources, an independent oil and gas producer, on May 3, 2024, and its US production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, bitumen and synthetic oil rose from 803 thousand to 1,248 thousand barrels a day. The regular employee count still fell from 62 thousand to 61 thousand. The 10-K doesn't say how many Pioneer employees joined.
• 2025: down 3 thousand, with restructuring. The 2025 10-K reports $419 million of restructuring charges, in Corporate and Financing, and $3.0 billion of new structural cost savings in 2025 from "operational efficiencies, workforce reductions, divestment-related reductions, and other cost-saving measures." It doesn't give the number of roles affected, so we don't either. It also names areas for further savings: "centralization of activities, system implementations, continued improvement of maintenance and turnarounds, and simplified business processes."

Revenue per employee

For 2025: $323,905 million divided by 58,000 is about $5.58 million. The ratio is inflated by the nature of the business. ExxonMobil spent $184,248 million on crude oil and product purchases in 2025, much of it resold through refining and marketing. Revenue less those purchases is about $139.7 billion, or about $2.41 million per regular employee (our calculation). Excluding contractors from the denominator pushes the ratio up further.

ExxonMobil reports four segments, Upstream, Energy Products, Chemical Products and Specialty Products, each split between the US and non-US, but it doesn't split employees by segment. Upstream earned $21,354 million in 2025, the largest share of the total.

Selling to a company of ExxonMobil's size

General guidance, not a description of ExxonMobil's internal process.

ExxonMobil is a 58,000 person company that has cut its structural costs by $15.1 billion against 2019 and says it wants more. That shapes what it buys.

• Lead with cost and productivity. The 10-K's own list (centralization, system implementations, maintenance and turnarounds, simpler processes) is a map of where a vendor's savings case will be heard.
• Sell to the segment and the site. Upstream, refining, chemicals and specialty products run different assets with different operating teams. Capital projects and plant maintenance are bought close to the asset.
• Remember the contractors. They aren't in the 58 thousand, and the 2020 reduction programs cut both employees and contractors, so a tool priced per employee may not cover everyone who'd use it.
• Expect long relationships. With average career service of about 30 years, incumbent vendors and established standards carry weight. Plan for a long qualification process.

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