Office profile
eBay Headquarters & offices · San Jose, California
eBay · San Jose, California
eBay still works on the Hamilton Avenue campus where it rented its first office suite in 1996 — now with a 20,000 sq ft “Main Street” hall that turns live sales into wall-sized pictures.
The campus, the leave policies and 30 years of office history — then the pay. Every number from eBay's own filings, careers site, newsroom and the designers' project pages.
- ≈ 0.5M sq ftSan Jose headquarters
- 20 weeks100% paid leave for birth parents, worldwide
- 4 weekspaid sabbatical every 5 years
- $180,276median employee pay (2025)
Sources: Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026 · ebayinc.com (Our History, Culture & Workforce) · careers.ebayinc.com/our-benefits · City of San José planning record PDC15-030
Companies / United States / E-commerce / eBay
THE HEADQUARTERS · HAMILTON AVENUE, SAN JOSE
A 30-year-old campus with a data-driven front door
eBay's headquarters sits on the former Greylands Business Park on Hamilton Avenue. In 2016 it opened “Main Street”, a 20,000 sq ft assembly building that serves as the campus's meeting place and welcome center. Inside, ESI Design (now part of NBBJ) built a live mosaic of eBay sales, a 15-foot touchscreen wall and the “Digital Bay” showroom. Gensler turned the old cafeteria into “The Kitchen”, inspired by food trucks, with picnic tables, string lights and self-checkout.
- ≈ 0.5M sq ft HQ (≈ 46,452 m²)
- Main Street: ≈ 20,000 sq ft (2016)
- Experience design: ESI Design / NBBJ
- “The Kitchen”: Gensler
- 100% renewable power since 2019
Main Street, the campus front door
ESI Design (now NBBJ) turned a 20,000 sq ft assembly building into a welcome hall where live sales data becomes wall-sized pictures.
“The Kitchen” amenities building
Gensler designed the campus food hall as a market of open counters, long shared tables and painted wall lettering.
Around the Hamilton Avenue campus
Facts: Form 10-K 2025, Item 2 · ebayinc.com Our History and newsroom (Sep 19, 2019) · City of San José file PDC15-030 / PD15-026 · NBBJ and ESI project pages “eBay Main Street” · Gensler project page “eBay Amenities Building”
Hamilton Avenue, San Jose
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (principal executive offices) | 2025 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125 |
| Former principal executive offices | 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125 |
| First office (suite #250), now Building 6 “Music” | 2005 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA |
| South Campus “Main Street” site | 2055–2145 East Hamilton Avenue and 1550 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 and 2009 covers · ebayinc.com Our History · City of San José file PDC15-030 / PD15-026 · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 2 · City of San José file PDC15-030 / PD15-026 (also a 3,555 sq ft metal space-frame canopy) · NBBJ/ESI and Gensler project pages · ABA project page “eBay Campus Master Plan” · eBay newsroom, Sep 19, 2019
Office tour videos
Benefits (worldwide and United States)
100% paid, worldwide.
100% paid, worldwide.
Reimbursement up to $25,000; adoption up to $10,000.
Paid, for every 5 years of service.
eBay Foundation matches up to $10,000 per employee per year, including volunteer time.
For every volunteer hour logged, a $20 reward to donate.
For the loss of immediate family members.
Fifth year in a row without increases in medical, dental and vision premiums (2025).
Source: ebayinc.com, Culture & Workforce (2025) · careers.ebayinc.com/our-benefits. Other listed benefits: stock purchase plans, stock awards, retirement and pension plans, a company-paid employee assistance plan.
Why people stay: what eBay itself says
Paid sabbatical time for every five years of service.
eBay says it supports flexible workstyles, including hybrid and remote.
Since 2020, about 81% of interns offered positions accept and move into full-time roles.
Twelve global employee-led groups for connection, learning and shared action.
LearnFest AI Days in Dublin and San Jose reached 4,000+ attendees in 2025; an AI Academy followed.
Employees are surveyed on trust, engagement, belonging, ethics and their managers.
Source: careers.ebayinc.com/our-benefits · ebayinc.com, Culture & Workforce (2025) · Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Management
Who works here
employees (Dec 31, 2025)
in the United States
countries with eBay properties (U.S. + 23)
employees volunteered 60,000+ hours (2025)
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (employees, properties) · ebayinc.com, Culture & Workforce (volunteering). U.S. share calculated by eciffo.
Pay at eBay
The CEO, Jamie Iannone, earned 158 times this amount ($28,463,890).
Source: Proxy statement 2026 (Annual Meeting June 17, 2026), CEO Pay Ratio
Source: eBay job postings R0074586 (Oct 2026) and R0070341 (Oct 2025), San Jose. Base pay only; a target bonus and restricted stock units may be added.
eBay doesn't publish pay by age. The posted base salary ranges above are the closest official numbers.
Office history: one street in San Jose for 30 years
- 1995 Written at home over Labor Day weekend
Pierre Omidyar wrote the code at home on his own computer and launched AuctionWeb in September 1995. The first item sold was a broken laser pointer.
Source: ebayinc.com, Our History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1996 First office: suite #250, 2005 Hamilton Avenue
In October 1996 Pierre Omidyar and new president Jeff Skoll rented a small suite at 2005 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose — today Building 6 (“Music”) on the eBay campus. Employee #1 had joined in June.
Source: ebayinc.com, Our History
2005 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose · © eBay Inc. - 2000 More buildings at “eBay Park”
In January 2000 eBay moved into additional buildings at its current headquarters, then known as eBay Park.
Source: ebayinc.com, Our History
The Hamilton Avenue campus (“eBay Park”), San Jose · © eBay Inc. - 2009 2145 Hamilton Avenue
The annual report gives the principal executive offices as 2145 Hamilton Avenue. eBay owned about 1.7 million sq ft in the U.S. (San Jose, Denver, Draper, Omaha and Phoenix).
Source: Form 10-K 2009, cover and Item 2
eBay's headquarters on Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, 2018 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2016 “Main Street” opens
A 20,000 sq ft assembly building with a space-frame canopy opened in June 2016 as the campus's central meeting place and welcome center for visitors.
Source: ebayinc.com, Our History · City of San José file PDC15-030 / PD15-026
Main Street opens, 2016 · Photo: NBBJ / ESI Design - 2019 Powered by 100% renewable energy
Both San Jose campuses, including the global headquarters, switched to carbon-free solar, wind and geothermal power through San Jose Clean Energy.
Source: eBay newsroom, Sep 19, 2019
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2025 2025 Hamilton Avenue, about 0.5 million sq ft
Today's filings give the headquarters address as 2025 Hamilton Avenue, occupying about 0.5 million sq ft. eBay's facilities total 2.7 million sq ft in the U.S. and 23 other countries.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, cover and Item 2
Hamilton Avenue headquarters, 2018 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K 2022 | ≈ 500,000 | ≈ 46,452 | San Jose HQ; all facilities 3.2M sq ft |
| 10-K 2025 | ≈ 500,000 | ≈ 46,452 | San Jose HQ; all facilities 2.7M sq ft |
Map: how the headquarters moved
eBay has never left Hamilton Avenue: its first rented suite at No. 2005 is now Building 6 of the same campus, a few hundred metres from today's headquarters address at No. 2025.
- 1 · 19962005 Hamilton Avenue, suite #250 — First office, rented by Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll; now Building 6
- 2 · 20092145 Hamilton Avenue — Principal executive offices in the 2009–2012 annual reports
- 3 · 20252025 Hamilton Avenue — Headquarters today, about 0.5 million sq ft
Addresses: ebayinc.com Our History · Form 10-K 2009 and 2025 covers · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What eBay does
eBay is an online marketplace founded in 1995 in San Jose. It earns most of its money from a “take rate” on what buyers pay sellers, plus fees sellers pay to promote listings.
Revenue comes from Marketplace activities (commissions and fees) and Advertising.
Where the money came from · net revenue by type, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Net Revenues (U.S. $5.8B = 52%, international $5.3B = 48%)
Source: Form 10-K 2025
Growth: revenue vs. people
$7.4B → $11.1B
10,800 → 12,300
Calendar years. Revenue (continuing operations, as restated after the sale of Classifieds and StubHub): Form 10-K 2021 (2019–2021), 2023 (2022) and 2025 (2023–2025). Employees: Form 10-K of each year; 2019–2020 not shown. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President and CEO since April 2020; previously COO of Walmart eCommerce.
Interim CEO after four years as Chief Financial Officer.
eBay's fourth CEO; joined in 2011 as President of eBay Marketplaces.
President and CEO; joined in 2005 as President of eBay Marketplaces.
Joined as President and CEO in February 1998 and took eBay public that September.
Founder: Pierre Omidyar. Jeff Skoll joined as the first president in 1996.
Source: ebayinc.com, Our History · Proxy statement 2026
eBay: questions people ask
Where is eBay's headquarters?
At 2025 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, California 95125. The campus is on the same street where eBay rented its first office suite in 1996.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 cover · ebayinc.com Our History
How big is eBay's headquarters?
About 0.5 million sq ft (≈ 46,452 m²). All eBay facilities total about 2.7 million sq ft in the U.S. and 23 other countries.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 2
What is eBay Main Street?
A roughly 20,000 sq ft assembly building on the San Jose campus, opened in June 2016 as a meeting place and welcome center. Its media installations, by ESI Design (NBBJ), show live eBay sales data.
Source: ebayinc.com Our History · City of San José file PDC15-030 · NBBJ
Who designed eBay's offices?
ESI Design (part of NBBJ) designed Main Street's media experience; Gensler designed the amenities building and its food-truck-style café, and an executive floor and lobby renovation built by Hillhouse Construction.
Source: NBBJ · ESI · Gensler · Hillhouse Construction project pages
How many people work at eBay?
About 12,300 people worldwide at the end of 2025, about 7,200 of them in the United States.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
What benefits does eBay offer?
100% paid parental leave worldwide (20 weeks for birth parents, 12 for non-birth parents), surrogacy reimbursement up to $25,000, adoption up to $10,000, a 4-week paid sabbatical every 5 years, and donation matching up to $10,000 a year.
Source: ebayinc.com Culture & Workforce · careers.ebayinc.com/our-benefits
Does eBay allow remote or hybrid work?
eBay's benefits page says it supports flexible workstyles, including hybrid and remote.
Source: careers.ebayinc.com/our-benefits
How much do eBay employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $180,276 in 2025. A 2026 San Jose posting for a Senior Software Engineer lists base pay of $172,000–$229,600.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · eBay job posting R0074586
Who is eBay's CEO?
Jamie Iannone, President and CEO since April 2020.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · ebayinc.com Our History
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