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Eli Lilly and Company Headquarters & offices · Indianapolis, Indiana
Eli Lilly and Company · Indianapolis, Indiana
150 years in the same city, two child development centers on the headquarters campus, and 12 weeks of paid leave for every new parent.
The campus, the benefits and a century and a half of addresses in Indianapolis — then the pay. Every number from Lilly's own filings, careers site and sustainability pages.
- 13,583people working in Indianapolis
- 2child development centers on campus
- 12 weekspaid leave for every new parent
- $125,100median employee pay
Sources: lilly.com Key facts (employees as of June 30, 2026) · careers.lilly.com Pay and Benefits (2026) · Proxy statement 2026 · Form 10-K 2025
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LILLY CORPORATE CENTER · INDIANAPOLIS
A headquarters campus gathered over 140 years on the south edge of downtown
Lilly Corporate Center is not one tower but a collection of buildings acquired and built over many years. A formal lobby and concourse with satinwood paneling and patterned marble floors, plus a skylit dining pavilion split into six areas by wooden trellises, tie the older buildings together. Newer additions include a wellness center that doubles as the entrance for employees who bike to work, a running track and soccer field, and a 57,000 sq ft conference center.
- 13,583 people in Indianapolis
- Lobby & dining pavilion: Lohan Associates (1992)
- Wellness center: 25,000 sq ft (≈ 2,323 m²)
- Conference center: 57,000 sq ft (≈ 5,295 m²)
- 2 child development centers
- Rooftop solar on the parking garages
Facts: Lohan Anderson project page “Eli Lilly” · Meyer Najem project page “Eli Lilly Corporate Wellness Center Building & East Commons” · Indiana Steel Fabricating project page “Eli Lilly Conference Center” · careers.lilly.com Life benefits · lilly.com Key facts · lilly.com story “Powering Progress in Indianapolis” (Sep 21, 2023)
The Indianapolis campus
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Lilly Corporate Center (HQ) | Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285 |
| Lilly Technology Center | Indianapolis, Indiana (Lilly's second Indianapolis campus) |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (headquarters address) · lilly.com story “Powering Progress in Indianapolis” (2023). Lilly publishes no street address for the campus. · See them on the map ↓
Source: Lohan Anderson · Meyer Najem · Indiana Steel Fabricating · Synthesis Incorporated (“Eli Lilly Integrated Workspace”, 2022) project pages · lilly.com (solar, 2023) · careers.lilly.com Health and Life benefits
Office tour videos
Benefits (United States)
For every new parent — mothers, fathers, partners, adoptive and foster parents — plus 8 weeks unpaid. Birth mothers also get 8 weeks of paid maternity leave.
Based on service, with the option to trade or buy more. Plus up to 19 paid holiday and company shutdown days, and an extra week off in every 5th anniversary year.
Lilly matches up to 6% of your contribution, of qualified student loan payments, or a mix of both.
A pension benefit — “a paycheck for life” — after five years of service, plus health benefits in retirement.
Education and tuition assistance each year.
Financial support toward adoption or surrogacy; fertility care is covered by the medical plans.
Subsidized in-home or center-based back-up care each year, plus two child development centers and a 10-week summer science camp in Indianapolis.
Ten therapy or coaching sessions at no additional cost, plus telehealth and onsite health clinics.
Source: careers.lilly.com Pay and Benefits — Health, Money and Life pages (programs effective January 1, 2026)
Why people stay: what Lilly itself says
Up from 7% in 2024 — Lilly says still below industry averages.
Share of survey respondents who feel their work contributes to the company's purpose, in a 2025 survey with a record 78% response rate.
Engagement surveys have run since 1995; in 2025 they moved to every year for all eligible employees.
A special global stock grant, issued from time to time, that makes all eligible employees shareholders.
Open to all employees — from Black Employees at Lilly and EnAble to Pride, Veterans Leadership Network and WILL.
The company's largest employee development summit, held for the fourth time in 2025, followed by a yearlong masterclass series.
Source: sustainability.lilly.com — Employee Engagement, Employee Well-Being and Inclusion pages (2026) · careers.lilly.com (ERGs)
Who works here
employees worldwide (June 30, 2026)
work in Indianapolis
work outside the U.S.
countries with Lilly R&D facilities
Source: lilly.com Key facts (employees as of June 30, 2026; R&D headcount and facilities)
Pay at Eli Lilly and Company
The median employee was identified from the workforce as of October 31, 2025. The CEO's total compensation ($36.7M) was 293 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 (DEF 14A, filed March 20, 2026), CEO Pay Ratio
Source: Lilly job postings R-110489, R-110862, R-113086 and R-110714 (careers.lilly.com, 2026). Full-time employees are also eligible for a company bonus.
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Lilly doesn't. Pay by level, above, is the closest official number.
Office history: 150 years, all within one mile of downtown Indianapolis
- 1876 A small brick building on Pearl Street
Colonel Eli Lilly, a chemist and Civil War veteran, opened his business on Pearl Street on May 10, 1876, with three employees. A 2026 state historical marker stands near the spot, at South Meridian and Pearl Streets.
Source: Lilly press release “Lilly Celebrates 125 Years” (2001) · Indiana Historical Bureau marker (2026) · lilly.com Key facts
Pearl Street, Indianapolis · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - Late 1870s 36 South Meridian Street
As sales grew, the company moved its headquarters a few steps away to larger quarters at 36 South Meridian Street.
Source: Wikipedia (address)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1881 To the south side — McCarty Street
Lilly moved to Indianapolis's south-side industrial area, the site it still occupies, and incorporated as Eli Lilly and Company the same year. The plant on McCarty Street grew into what the family called the “pill factory.”
Source: Wikipedia (year) · Discover Indiana (IUPUI) “Eli Lilly and Company”
Lilly headquarters, 1910s postcard · Unknown artistUnknown artist / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1911–1934 A science building and research labs
A new Science Building opened on the McCarty Street site in 1911 and a capsule plant in 1913. In 1934 came the Lilly Research Laboratories and a replica of the 1876 laboratory. The complex eventually covered more than two dozen buildings across 15 blocks.
Source: Wikipedia (years)
Building No. 37 at Delaware and McCarty Streets, Indianapolis · Indiana Landmarks / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1992 One lobby to tie it together
Lohan Associates added a formal lobby and concourse and a skylit dining pavilion to connect the campus's varied buildings — today's Lilly Corporate Center.
Source: Lohan Anderson project page “Eli Lilly”
Corporate Center · Paul Sableman / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2022–2023 Open workspace and solar
Three existing buildings were renovated and joined by a new one around a courtyard for the global marketing team (325,000 sq ft). In 2023 Lilly announced rooftop solar arrays on the Corporate Center parking garages.
Source: Synthesis Incorporated project post (2022) · lilly.com (Sep 21, 2023)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 150 years, a new conference center
Lilly marked its 150th anniversary on May 10, 2026. The state historical marker for its founding was first unveiled at the new Lilly Event Center, and a new 57,000 sq ft conference center now stands in downtown Indianapolis.
Source: lilly.com History · Indiana Historical Bureau (events.in.gov) · Indiana Steel Fabricating project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a small shop on Pearl Street to the south side of downtown Indianapolis, about 1.3 km away. Lilly has been headquartered in Indianapolis since its founding — and on the same south-side site since 1881.
- 1 · 1876Pearl Street — Founded near South Meridian and Pearl Streets
- 2 · Late 1870s36 South Meridian Street — Larger quarters a few steps away
- 3 · 1881McCarty Street — The south-side plant the campus grew from
- 4 · TodayLilly Corporate Center — Headquarters, Indianapolis 46285
Addresses: Indiana Historical Bureau marker (2026) · Wikipedia · Discover Indiana · Form 10-K 2025 · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Eli Lilly and Company does
Lilly started in 1876 making pills, extracts and syrups by hand. Today it develops and sells medicines for diabetes and obesity, cancer, immune diseases and Alzheimer's — and two forms of one molecule, tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound), now bring in more than half of its revenue.
One reporting segment: the company operates as a single segment.
Where the money came from · Revenue by medicine, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Note 2 (revenue by product, U.S. plus outside U.S.) and Item 1 (indications)
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (revenue, R&D, employees) · lilly.com Key facts (net income, R&D share) · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$20.0B → $65.2B
33,625 → 50,000
Calendar years. Revenue: SEC XBRL data from Lilly's 10-K filings (2017–2018 as restated without the Elanco animal-health business). Employees: Form 10-K, approximate year-end figures as reported (2017–2018 still include Elanco). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chair and CEO. Joined Lilly in 1996 as a business development associate; CEO since January 2017 and chair since June 2017.
Joined in 1979 as a senior organic chemist; CEO from April 1, 2008 to December 31, 2016.
Founder: Colonel Eli Lilly (1876).
Source: lilly.com leadership page “David Ricks” · Lilly press release, July 27, 2016
Eli Lilly and Company: questions people ask
Where is Eli Lilly's headquarters?
At Lilly Corporate Center in Indianapolis, Indiana (ZIP 46285), on the south edge of downtown. Lilly has been headquartered in Indianapolis since it was founded on May 10, 1876.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · lilly.com Key facts
How many people work at Eli Lilly?
51,168 employees as of June 30, 2026, including 13,583 in Indianapolis and 26,863 outside the U.S. About a quarter (12,771) work in research and development.
Source: lilly.com Key facts
How much do Eli Lilly employees make?
The median employee's annual total compensation was $125,100 in 2025. 2026 Indianapolis postings list an anticipated wage of $66,000–$171,600 for a senior scientist and $165,000–$290,400 for a director-level scientist.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Lilly job postings R-110862 and R-110714
What benefits does Eli Lilly offer?
In the U.S.: 12 weeks of paid leave for every new parent, 3–6 weeks of vacation plus up to 19 holiday and shutdown days, a 401(k) match of up to 6%, a pension after 5 years, $10,000 a year for education and $25,000 toward adoption or surrogacy.
Source: careers.lilly.com Pay and Benefits (2026)
Does Eli Lilly have child care at its headquarters?
Yes. Lilly runs two child development centers on its Indianapolis campus, offers 40 hours of subsidized back-up care, and has a 10-week summer science camp for children in Indianapolis.
Source: careers.lilly.com Life benefits
Does Eli Lilly allow flexible or remote work?
Lilly says its benefits, which vary by country, may include flexible work arrangements, onsite conveniences and time off to disconnect. It does not publish a company-wide remote work rule.
Source: sustainability.lilly.com, Employee Well-Being
What is Eli Lilly's employee turnover rate?
Total turnover was 9% in 2025, up from 7% in 2024, which Lilly says is still below industry averages.
Source: sustainability.lilly.com, Employee Engagement
Who designed Eli Lilly's headquarters?
The campus is a collection of buildings acquired and built over many years. Lohan Associates designed the lobby, concourse and dining pavilion that tie it together (completed 1992).
Source: Lohan Anderson project page
Where did Eli Lilly start?
In a small brick building on Pearl Street in downtown Indianapolis, opened by Colonel Eli Lilly on May 10, 1876, with three employees. In 1881 the company moved to the south side, where its headquarters still stands.
Source: Lilly press release (2001) · Indiana Historical Bureau marker · Wikipedia
Who is Eli Lilly's CEO?
David A. Ricks, chair and CEO. He joined Lilly in 1996, became CEO in January 2017 and chair in June 2017.
Source: lilly.com leadership
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