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Boeing Headquarters & offices · Arlington, Virginia
Boeing · Arlington, Virginia
Lobby columns shaped like airplane wings, in a headquarters whose odd shape lets real jets pass on their way into Reagan National Airport.
The Long Bridge building across from the Pentagon, the benefits, and 110 years of offices from a red shipyard barn in Seattle — then the pay. Every number from Boeing's filings, benefits site and newsroom, and the builders' own project pages.
- 320,000 sq ftheadquarters building, LEED Gold
- 10%401(k) match, dollar for dollar, vested at once
- 182,000people worldwide, end of 2025
- $141,933median employee pay, 2025
Sources: Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026 · boeingbenefits.com · Boeing newsroom (May 5, 2022) · Monument Realty and DAVIS Construction project pages
Companies / United States / Aerospace & defense / Boeing
THE HEADQUARTERS · LONG BRIDGE · ARLINGTON
A building shaped around the planes flying past it
Boeing's global headquarters stands at the foot of the 14th Street Bridge, between the Pentagon and Reagan National Airport. Its uneven height and unusual shape were designed around planes landing at and taking off from the airport. Inside, the lobby columns are shaped like airplane wings, and from above the main entrance drive looks like an airport tarmac.
- 320,000 sq ft (≈ 29,729 m²)
- LEED Gold
- Architect: Gensler
- Lobby columns shaped like wings
- Opened 2014 · global HQ since 2022
- Veterans Wall (2025)
Boeing's headquarters in Arlington
Gensler designed Boeing's offices in the Long Bridge building across from the Pentagon; it became the global headquarters in 2022.
Facts: DAVIS Construction project page “Monument View” · Monument Realty project page “Monument View” · W&W Glass project page “Monument View – Boeing Headquarters” · boeing.com feature (Feb 2026)
The headquarters building
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Boeing global headquarters (Monument View / Long Bridge) | 929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington, VA 22202 |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (principal executive offices) · W&W Glass and Monument Realty project pages · See them on the map ↓
Source: W&W Glass (architect, builder) · Monument Realty (size, LEED Gold, site) · DAVIS Construction (LEED Gold) · boeing.com feature, Feb 2026 (opened 2014) · Boeing newsroom, May 5, 2022
Benefits (United States)
Dollar-for-dollar match on the first 10% of base and incentive pay for eligible nonunion employees, 100% vested immediately.
A standard 12-holiday schedule, including a six-day Winter Break from Christmas Eve to New Year's Eve, plus one floating holiday.
No annual limit on tuition assistance for eligible STEM degree and certificate courses; Boeing pays the school directly. Eligible from the first of the month after hire.
Up to 10 free counseling sessions and 10 coaching sessions a year for each family member aged 6+, through Spring Health.
Back-up care through Bright Horizons when regular care falls through, plus priority access to Bright Horizons centers.
Boeing matches gifts or donates for volunteer time, up to $10,000 a year.
Most Boeing fitness centers are open around the clock; some are open to family members too.
Source: boeingbenefits.com (candidate page, Time Off; last updated March 2026). Union-represented employees' benefits follow their collective bargaining agreements.
Why people stay: what Boeing itself says
About 12,000 employees used Boeing's tuition assistance in 2025 for degrees, certificates and courses.
Employees completed about 5.8 million hours of learning in 2025.
Employees are 100% vested in Boeing's 401(k) contributions as soon as they are made.
Veterans make up more than 13% of Boeing's U.S. workforce; a SkillBridge program helps service members move into civilian jobs.
A multi-level recognition program for excellent individual or team performance.
Boeing launched new Values and Behaviors and now rates people on how they achieve results, not only what they achieve.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · boeingbenefits.com (candidate page) · jobs.boeing.com
Who works here
total workforce, Dec 31, 2025
work outside the U.S.
union members
of the U.S. workforce are veterans
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · jobs.boeing.com
Pay at Boeing
The CEO's annualized pay of $23,581,389 was about 166 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 (Pay Ratio)
Compare Boeing with: Airbus
Office history: from a red shipyard barn in Seattle to Long Bridge
- 1910 Bill Boeing buys a shipyard on the Duwamish
Timber businessman Bill Boeing bought Heath Shipyard, a small boatbuilder on the banks of the Duwamish River in South Seattle, near today's Georgetown neighborhood, taking on its debts.
Source: boeing.com feature “A fitting finale for Freedom Plane in the city that defines aviation” (Aug 2026)
The Red Barn, Boeing's first factory building from the Heath shipyard, now at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, 2012 · InSapphoWeTrust / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1916 The Red Barn becomes the first headquarters
Bill Boeing formed Pacific Aero Products Co. on July 15, 1916 (renamed Boeing Airplane Co. in 1917). The shipyard became the company's first headquarters, Plant 1, known as the Red Barn: builders and accountants worked downstairs, engineers upstairs. It was used until 1970 and is now preserved at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Source: boeing.com features (Aug 2026, Feb 2026, Jul 2026, Jan 2025)
The Red Barn, now at the Museum of Flight, 2024 · Chris Light / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1917 A first office in Washington, D.C.
Expecting the U.S. government to become a major customer, Bill Boeing set up shop in Washington, D.C. in 1917. James Murray led the D.C. office from 1928 to 1961.
Source: boeing.com feature “How William Boeing's foresight kept the company close to D.C.” (Feb 2026)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2001 100 North Riverside, Chicago
Boeing moved its world headquarters to the top 12 floors of 100 North Riverside on the Chicago River, saying the headquarters should be central to its businesses but separate from its operations. About 200 people started on September 4, 2001, after a 117-day fit-out; about 400 were expected by year-end.
Source: Boeing news releases, Mar 21, May 10 and Sep 4, 2001
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2014 Long Bridge opens in Arlington
Boeing opened its Long Bridge building in Arlington, Virginia: a 320,000 sq ft, LEED Gold office built to suit for Boeing on the former Twin Bridges Marriott site, between the Pentagon and Reagan National Airport.
Source: boeing.com feature (Feb 2026) · Monument Realty and DAVIS Construction project pages
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2016 Defense headquarters moves in
The headquarters of Boeing Defense, Space & Security moved to Arlington in 2016. It returned to St. Louis in 2026.
Source: boeing.com feature (Feb 2026)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2022 Long Bridge becomes the global headquarters
On May 5, 2022 Boeing named its Arlington campus its global headquarters, citing nearness to customers and stakeholders and access to engineering talent, and kept a smaller office in Chicago. A Veterans Wall honoring employees' military service was added in 2025.
Source: Boeing news release, May 5, 2022 · boeing.com feature (Feb 2026) · Form 10-K 2022
Long Bridge, Arlington, 2016 · mr_t_77 / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a shipyard on the Duwamish River in Seattle to Chicago's riverfront in 2001, then to the banks of the Potomac across from the Pentagon.
- 1 · 1916Red Barn (Heath Shipyard), Seattle — First headquarters on the Duwamish River near Georgetown — position approximate
- 2 · 2001100 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago — World headquarters on the top 12 floors, 2001–2022
- 3 · 2022929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington — Opened 2014; global headquarters since May 2022
Addresses: boeing.com feature (Aug 2026) · Boeing news releases 2001 · Form 10-K 2025. The Red Barn point is approximate: Boeing describes the place, not a street address.
What Boeing does
Boeing designs, builds and services commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and launch systems. It calls itself one of the two major makers of 100+ seat airplanes and one of the largest U.S. defense contractors.
Three businesses: Commercial Airplanes (BCA), Defense, Space & Security (BDS) and Global Services (BGS).
Where the money came from · Revenue by business, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 1 and segment results
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (statements of operations, deliveries, backlog) · growth rate calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$76.6B → $89.5B
161,100 → 182,000
Calendar years. Revenue: Form 10-K 2019 (2017–2019), 2022 (2020–2022) and 2025 (2023–2025). Total workforce at Dec 31: Form 10-K 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President and CEO. Began as an engineer at Texas Instruments in 1983, then spent more than three decades at Rockwell Collins, rising to its CEO.
President and CEO when Boeing named Arlington its global headquarters in 2022.
Chairman and CEO who moved the headquarters to Chicago in 2001.
Founder: William E. (Bill) Boeing, who formed Pacific Aero Products Co. in Seattle on July 15, 1916.
Source: boeing.com executive biography (Kelly Ortberg) · Boeing news releases 2001 and 2022 · boeing.com feature (Feb 2026)
Boeing: questions people ask
Where is Boeing's headquarters?
At 929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202, just outside Washington, D.C. Boeing named this campus its global headquarters on May 5, 2022.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Boeing news release, May 5, 2022
Why did Boeing move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington?
Boeing said the region made strategic sense because of its proximity to customers and stakeholders and its access to engineering and technical talent. It also said flexible work let it use less office space, and it kept a presence in Chicago.
Source: Boeing news release, May 5, 2022
Who designed Boeing's headquarters?
Gensler was the architect of the building at 929 Long Bridge Drive. Monument Realty developed it as a build-to-suit for Boeing and DAVIS Construction built it.
Source: W&W Glass project page · Monument Realty project page
How big is Boeing's headquarters?
The Long Bridge building is about 320,000 sq ft (≈ 29,729 m²) and is LEED Gold certified. Across all its sites Boeing had about 111 million sq ft of floor space at the end of 2025.
Source: Monument Realty project page · Form 10-K 2025, Item 2
What is special about the building's design?
Its uneven height and unusual shape were designed around planes landing at and leaving nearby Reagan National Airport. The lobby columns are shaped like airplane wings, and the entrance drive looks like an airport tarmac from above.
Source: DAVIS Construction project page
How many people work at Boeing?
About 182,000 at the end of 2025, with 14% outside the U.S. About 72,000 are union members.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
What benefits does Boeing offer?
In the U.S.: a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match on the first 10% of pay (eligible nonunion employees) with immediate vesting, 12 holidays plus a floating holiday, tuition assistance with no annual limit for eligible STEM programs, 10 free counseling sessions a year, back-up care and up to $10,000 a year in donation matching.
Source: boeingbenefits.com
Does Boeing allow remote or hybrid work?
Boeing said in 2022 that it had adopted a flexible work strategy in parts of the company, which let it reduce its office space.
Source: Boeing news release, May 5, 2022
How much do Boeing employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $141,933 in 2025. The CEO's annualized pay was about 166 times that.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
Where did Boeing start?
In Seattle. In 1910 Bill Boeing bought Heath Shipyard on the Duwamish River; it became the company's first headquarters, the Red Barn, used from 1916 to 1970 and now preserved at the Museum of Flight.
Source: boeing.com features (Aug 2026, Jul 2026)
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