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title: The Walt Disney Company
description: Second-largest employer on the July 2025 city table, at 6,284 jobs, 3.8 percent of that table denominator. Headquarters address published by the Los Angeles Business Journal: 500 S
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# The Walt Disney Company

Second-largest employer on the July 2025 city table, at 6,284 jobs, 3.8 percent of that table denominator. Headquarters address published by the Los Angeles Business Journal: 500 South Buena Vista Street. The same newspaper counted 10,900 valley-area employees in September 2025, which is a wider geography than the city table. Remittances are not published. The studio and headquarters campus is the other primary private anchor in the media district, labeled as an inference. ABC Inc. appeared as its own line on older city tables, including 1,160 employees in the June 30, 2021 ACFR, and is not a separate line on the July 2025 table.

Tax role: Private anchor.

## Offices

- Headquarters and studio lot: 500 S Buena Vista St, Burbank, 91521. Address from the September 2025 Los Angeles Business Journal list.

## Employment

- 2025-07-01: 6284 employees. Burbank, jobs reported to the city. July 2025 city table and FY2024-25 ACFR Table 15. Source: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, Table 15 Principal Employers.
- 2025-09-11: 10900 employees. San Fernando Valley, not city-limits only. Valley-area count. Companywide count in the same list: 230,400. Source: San Fernando Valley private-sector employers list.
- 2024-01-01: 7800 employees. Burbank, strategic plan era. Older city publication. Chamber page prints 7,800 with no as-of date. Source: Burbank 2024-2028 Economic Development Strategic Plan.
- 2021-06-30: 1160 employees. Burbank, ABC Inc. line on the FY2021 ACFR. Stored on the Disney record because later top-ten tables do not list ABC separately. The housing element reprints 1,160. Source: Burbank Housing Element employer table.

## Tax relationship

- inference. business_license. Second-largest reported employer. License tax is inferred from presence, not from a published remittance.
- inference. property. The headquarters and studio campus on South Buena Vista Street is the other large private media parcel cluster. The bill is not published.


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